
Feb. 26, 2003
1:53 p.m.
Raymond> There is a piece of low hanging fruit in "while True" Raymond> constructs. If the code generator can recognize it, ... Yes, that would improve things, but it gets back to the issue that True isn't strictly speaking a constant, but has to be evaluated each pass around the loop. None is moving slowly toward becoming a true constant. Perhaps the same should be true of True and False. Skip