On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Christoph Breitkopf wrote: > Neither do I. My naive reading of the standard is that it's > always okay to put a (the element-type ...) around the aref in the > presence of the array type declaration. Since python is about > speed, I'd assumed it would make use of that.
I've on a few occasions observed that additional THE's can have a detrimental effect on performance. I never really investigated this, and don't have any code to "prove" it around anymore, but it *seemed* to me that at least in some cases THE can turn into an additional runtime check. Dunno, really, but insight into this from someone who actually knows would be welcome... Cheers, -- Nikodemus
