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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 1 02:01:27 CEST 2009


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Did your coworker run any timings instead of basing his assumptions on bytecode size?

In any case, what are you suggesting -- that the last value returned by a function call in the body should be the default return value?

I don't think the unpredictability that would introduce would be a good idea.

-- Greg



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