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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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On 14/12/2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:58:14 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 13/12/2013 23:17, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2013 03:10 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Seems like we're now in the later stages of the 15, three minute
>>>> rounds.  The trainer won't throw in the towel, the referee won't stop
>>>> the fight and the boxer himself won't quit.  Is jmf actually trying to
>>>> get himself killed?
>>>
>>> His credibility with me has been long dead.  :(
>>>
>>> --
>>> ~Ethan~
>>
>> With me it never lived, we've simply had to put up with his FUD for 16
>> months.
>
> Mark, do you really mean to say that you were prejudiced against JMF
> before he even write a word here?
>
> Strange thing to say, since he did actually identify a real performance
> regression, even if he has since become obsessed with demonstrating that
> a micro-performance slowdown means that Python is mathematically and
> logically broken.
>

IIRC he first started spreading his rubbish sometime in August 2012, I 
make that around 16 months, what does your maths skills make it?  He 
also identified a problem in an edge case that stood out like a sore 
thumb when compared to real world cases.  Big deal.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence