Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jan 04, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > >>Ugh, I can't be the only one who finds these special cases to be a little >>nasty? >> >>Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. > > Yeah, I agree. Still it would be interesting to see what kind of > performance improvement this would result in. That seems to be > the only way to decide whether the cost is worth the benefit.
Yuck from me as well. I would guess that attribute lookups would be just as significant as global variable lookups (depending on coding style, of course). In contrast, the local variable semantic change provided a big speed increase for a minor language complexity cost. Neil _______________________________________________ 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
