Guido van Rossum wrote: >>So the two things I thought were glitches are actually cancelling each >>other out. Very good. Thanks for your help. > > > Though I wonder why it was written so delicately.
Don't know; Jeremy wrote those functions back in 2001 to add nested scopes. If he remembers he deserves a cookie for having such a good memory. > Would explicit > INCREF/DECREF really have hurt the performance that much? This is only > the bytecode compiler, which isn't on the critical path. > Probably not. But at this point I doubt it is worth fixing since the AST branch will replace it eventually (work is on-going, just slow since my thesis is on the home stretch; initial draft is done and now I am editing to hand over for final revision by my advisor). -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
