On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > I'm not so opposed to this proposal. I have been (idly and unfoundedly) > wondering basically forever if the current way try-finally is implemented is > actually a good one. I can accept a performance penalty for the exception > case in both try-finally and try-except, but the normal case in try-finally > should run as fast as possible. I'm not sure the C compiler can always > detect what that "normal" case is in order to properly optimise for it.
Evidently Java compilers duplicate the finally block (or, actually, triplicate it): http://cliffhacks.blogspot.com/2008/02/java-6-tryfinally-compilation-without.html Carl _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
