[Python-Dev] Fast access to __builtins__

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
 > [per module switch]
> That makes good sense.  
> Are you guys thinking of something like this:
> 
> __fastbuiltins__ = True  # optimize all subsequent defs in the module
> 
> [M.-A. Lemburg]
> 
>>BTW, why not have a new opcode for symbols in the
>>builtins and then only tweak the opcode implementation
>>instead of having the compiler generate different code ?
> 
> Either way results in changing one opcode/oparg pair, so I
> don't see how having a new opcode helps.  At some point,
> the name has to be looked-up and a reference to it stored.
> Afterwards, LOAD_CONST is all that is needed to fetch
> the reference.

Right, but with the new opcode you could have the interpreter
decide whether to optimize or not without recompiling the
code.

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