2 Sep
2017
2 Sep
'17
1:10 a.m.
Chris Angelico wrote:
This particular example is safe, because the arguments get passed individually - so 'args' has one reference, plus there's one more for the actual function call
However, that's also true when you use the += operator, so if the optimisation is to trigger at all in any useful case, the refcount threshold needs to be set higher than 1. Some experiments I did suggest that if you set it high enough for x += y to trigger it, then it will also be triggered in Joe's case. BTW, isn't there already a similar optimisation somewhere for concatenating strings? Does it still exist? How does it avoid this issue? -- Greg