June 12, 2003
5:39 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003, Christian Tismer wrote:
I looked into the execution path of PyObject_GenericGetAttr. This first finds the type dictionary and sees if it can find something there. So access to special objects appears to be quite fast. The drawback is that only after searching all of the mro dicts, _PyType_Lookup gives up, and then the instance dict is inspected.
Yes. Ping, Guido, and I were working on a patch for this, but stalled when our solution generated slower results for attributes in the most immediate base class. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra