[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python) (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:47:44 -0500

[Neil Schemenauer]

Any opinion on where to spend effort?

For real life boosts, function/method calls. Making "len" a builtin wouldn't help so much for saving a couple dict lookups as it would for avoiding the call machinery, and for callees coded in Python that's heavy work.