[Python-Dev] Re: C new-style classes and GC (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim@zope.com
Fri, 16 May 2003 17:43:51 -0400

[Jim Fulton]

... I don't know wht PyDictNew doesn't just call the dict type. Maybe doing things in-line like this is just an optimization.

All aspects of dict objects are indeed micro-optimized. In the office, Jeremy raised some darned good points about things in dictobject.c that don't make good sense anymore, but I'll skip those here because they don't relate to the topic at hand (in brief, "module initialization" for dictobject.c is still hiding inside PyDict_New, but there's no guarantee that ever gets called anymore).