[Tim]
Speaking of which, why does LOAD_FAST waste time checking against NULL twice?!
[Neil Schemenauer]
If you would have approved my patch it would be fixed already.
Heh. If you had entered the patch at priority 9, I might have gotten to it by this summer. At priority 3, we're talking years <wink/sigh>. I boosted it to 6. Note that the tiny patch I checked in also rearranged the code so that the mormal case became the fall-through case: if (normal) do normal stuff else do exceptional stuff Most dumb compilers on platforms that care use a "forward branches probably aren't taken, backward branches probably are" heuristic for setting branch-prediction hints in the machine code; and on platforms that don't care it's usually faster to fall through than to change the program counter anyway.
one-small-banana-left-ly y'rs Neil
is-that-an-american-or-canadian-banana?-ly y'rs - tim