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

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:02:40 -0800

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I think that there could be some low-hanging fruit in inlining certain builtins (e.g. len, range, xrange) that as far as we know aren't shadowed by globals. Is that what you call non-local namespace optimizations?

I meant continuing work started by Ping, Jeremy, and you on non-local namespaces (something other than dicts). Tim's suggestion of optimizing function calls sounds like another good one.

Neil