No, you would need to implement list.__setitem__ in Python, which we could do, does the JIT see such code?
Alex On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:05 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > On 12:38 am, alex.gay...@gmail.com wrote: > >> repeat itself is not slow, it's just that when it's used it iterates over >> it, in RPython (meaning it's not jit'd) which results in a dictionary >> lookup >> for the next() method at every iteration, which is slowish, list hits a >> special case so it doesn' thave that overhead. >> > > Is it time to reimplement repeat in Python then? > > Jean-Paul > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero
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