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

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue Sep 1 03:03:12 CEST 2009

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

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.

gads no. we're not shell or perl! don't do that :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20090831/76aa1845/attachment.htm>

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