[Python-Dev] Caching float(0.0) (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Wed Oct 4 07:01:06 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:53, Tim Peters wrote:

Someone (Fred, I think) introduced a front-end optimization to collapse that to plain LOAD_CONST, doing the negation at compile time.

I did the original change to make negative integers use just LOAD_CONST, but I don't think I changed what was generated for float literals. That could be my memory going bad, though.

The code changed several times as people with more numeric-fu that myself fixed all sorts of border cases. I've tried really hard to stay away from the code generator since then. :-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.



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