[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@zope.com
Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:22:22 -0400

[Tim]

But BINARYADD knows everything there is to know about Python ints, and that's an important speed optimization:

Which makes it a perfect example IMO: the abstract semantics of the opcode are as neutral as can be, and the implementation can grease the path for a common case. A complete redesign can still do that.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)