On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> 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. > Alex
+1, I don't think nailing down a few builtins is that helpful for optimizing Python. Anyone attempting to seriously optimize Python is going to need to use more general techniques that apply to non-builtins as well. In unladen swallow (I'm sure something similar is done in PyPy) we have some infrastructure for watching dictionaries for changes, and in particular we tend to watch the builtins and module dictionaries. Reid _______________________________________________ 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
