27 Jan
2016
27 Jan
'16
10:40 p.m.
BTW, this optimization also makes some old optimization tricks obsolete. 1. No need to write 'def func(len=len)'. Globals lookups will be fast. 2. No need to save bound methods: obj = [] obj_append = obj.append for _ in range(10**6): obj_append(something) This hand-optimized code would only be marginally faster, because of LOAD_METHOD and how it's cached. Yury