Raymond Hettinger wrote:
I was just wondering if a bytecode for a superinstruction of the common sequence:
6 POP_TOP 7 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) 10 RETURN_VALUE
might be worth it.
[Collin Winter]
I doubt it. You'd save a bit of stack manipulation, but since this will only appear at the end of a function, I'd be skeptical that this would make any macrobenchmarks (statistically) significantly faster.
I concur with Collin. And since it appears only at the end of a function, the optimization doesn't help inner-loops in a function (where most of the time usually spent).
I fail to understand this crude logic. How often is the inner-loop really going to solely call C code? Any call to Python in an inner-loop is going to suffer this penalty on the order of the number of loop iterations)? -Scott -- Scott Dial scott@scottdial.com scodial@cs.indiana.edu