[Python-Dev] default of returning None hurts performance? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Tue Sep 1 00:28:39 CEST 2009


2009/8/31 Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>:

I was just wondering if a bytecode for a superinstruction of the common sequence:

6 POPTOP 7 LOADCONST               0 (None) 10 RETURNVALUE might be worth it.

We could just utilize RETURN_VALUE's op argument.

-- Regards, Benjamin



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