On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, spir wrote:
> Le Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:13:33 -0400,
> Kent Johnson s'exprima ainsi:
>
>> Because local name lookup is faster than global name lookup. Local
>> variables are stored in an array in the stack frame and accessed by
>> index. Global names are stored in a
Le Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:13:33 -0400,
Kent Johnson s'exprima ainsi:
> Because local name lookup is faster than global name lookup. Local
> variables are stored in an array in the stack frame and accessed by
> index. Global names are stored in a dict and accessed with dict access
> (dict.__getitem__
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Poor Yorick
wrote:
> In the following snippet, the loop in the global namespace takes twice as
> long
> as the loop in the function namespace. Why?
Because local name lookup is faster than global name lookup. Local
variables are stored in an array in the stack fr
