[Python-Dev] LOAD_SELF and SELF_ATTR opcodes (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sat Oct 15 10:17:36 CEST 2005

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

Indeed, even pystone doesn't do much attribute access on the first argument of most of its functions, especially not those in inner loops. Only Proc1() and the Record.copy() method do anything that would be helped by SELFATTR. But it seems to me that this is very unusual for object-oriented code, and that more common uses of Python should be helped a lot more by this.

Is it that unusual though? I don't think it's that unreasonable to suppose that 'typical smalltalk code' sends messages to self a good deal more often than 'typical python code'. I'm not saying that this is the case, but my intuition is that it might be (not all Python code is that object oriented, after all).

Cheers, mwh

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