[Python-Dev] Accessing globals without dict lookup (original) (raw)

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:16:07 -0800

Tim Peters wrote:

Maybe more interesting: One of the folks at Zope Corp reported getting significant speedups by using some gcc option that can feed real-life branch histories back into the compiler. Less work and less error-prone than guessing annotations.

Slightly OT: Has anyone tried compiling Python w/ the Intel C++ compiler?

--david