On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
The only new thing in your proposal is the change to the bytecode, and that could be achieved by treating it as an optimisation. A sufficiently smart code generator could notice that you were repeatedly operating on the same object and produce the bytecode you suggest.
"self" was mentioned. I wonder whether there could be some additional optimization magic applied to a function's first argument, same as the no-arg super() call? Since it's a semantic-free optimization, any Python implementation would be free to mess with this. Have opcodes for "LOAD_ARG1_ATTR" and "STORE_ARG1_ATTR", semantically equivalent to LOAD_FAST 0 followed by LOAD_ATTR or STORE_ATTR. ChrisA