[Python-Dev] Possible optimization for LOAD_FAST ? (original) (raw)

Cesare Di Mauro cesare.di.mauro at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 16:02:43 CET 2010

2010/12/31 Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote: >> OK, but is it mandatory? For example, in the above code, I can unroll the >> loop because I found that range is the usual built-in, 5 is a low-enough >> constant, > > How do you know xrange is xrange and not something else? > > Cheers, > fijal >

Err, misread. How do you know that range is a builtin you're thinking about and not some other object? Cheers, fijal

By a special opcode which could do this work. ]:-)

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