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Author	jdemeyer
Recipients	jdemeyer, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano
Date	2019-08-19.19:42:13
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Message-id	<1566243733.21.0.58197218341.issue37884@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> ISTM that small and probably unimportant opimizations shouldn't spill-over into API feature creep. The way I see it, the optimization is besides the point here. Regardless of performance, the added function is a useful feature to have to avoid forcing people to reinvent the wheel. For example, would you want the exact same code duplicated for fractions.Fraction() and for statictics.mean()? See also #37836 in case you didn't know about that issue.

> ISTM that small and probably unimportant opimizations shouldn't spill-over into API feature creep.

The way I see it, the optimization is besides the point here. Regardless of performance, the added function is a useful feature to have to avoid forcing people to reinvent the wheel.  For example, would you want the exact same code duplicated for fractions.Fraction() and for statictics.mean()?

See also #37836 in case you didn't know about that issue.

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