15 Jul
2004
15 Jul
'04
2:56 p.m.
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Guido van Rossum wrote:
At the cost of an extra pointer dereference and jump, and usually for naught (the uses of LOAD_CONST not in a return statement must certainly vastly outnumber those in return statements).
Hm, I didn't think the extra three or so assembler opcodes needed would make that big of an impact on the loop, given all the other things it does. Guess it was a just bad idea :)