On Fri, 24 May 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
So let's discuss features for 2.3. PEP 283 mentions these:
PEP 266 Optimizing Global Variable/Attribute Access Montanaro PEP 267 Optimized Access to Module Namespaces Hylton PEP 280 Optimizing access to globals van Rossum
(These are basically three friendly competing proposals.)
The last thing i remember from this discussion was spending a lot of time trying to understand everyone's implementation schemes and drawing little pictures (http://web.lfw.org/python/globals.html) to describe them. I never heard anything back about them, and the discussion on this topic went suddenly silent after that. Was there a correlation (i hope not) or did everyone just get busy with other things? I was hoping that the figures would help us compare and evaluate the various schemes. -- ?!ng