On Jun 16, 7:05 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:45:12 +0800, TheSaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > is it an if....elif....elif probing only the first matching case and drop > > the > > remaining checks? > > Unless the compile/interpret pass is very unoptimized, once a branch > has been taken, the others should be totally skipped. >
Don't you mean "Unless the "compile/interpret pass is VERY VERY BROKEN", as in "omits to drop in a jump to the end of the 'if' statement after each chunk of action code"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
