[Python-Dev] Store x Load x --> DupStore

[Raymond Hettinger]

Any objections to new peephole transformation that merges a store/load
pair into a single step?
 
There is a tested patch at:  www.python.org/sf/1144842

It folds the two steps into a new opcode.  In the case of
store_name/load_name, it saves one three byte instruction, a trip around
the eval-loop, two stack mutations, a incref/decref pair, a dictionary
lookup, and an error check (for the lookup).  While it acts like a dup
followed by a store, it is implemented more simply as a store that
doesn't pop the stack.  The transformation is broadly applicable and
occurs thousands of times in the standard library and test suite.



Raymond Hettinger