[New-bugs-announce] [issue26297] Move constant folding to AST level

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

For using more efficient bytecode (either specialized 8-bit opcodes or 16-bit opcodes) we need to move some optimizations from bytecode level to AST level, since LOAD_CONST variants could have variable size. Now with the Constant node this should be easy.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 259680
nosy: abarnert, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, haypo, ncoghlan, serhiy.storchaka, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Move constant folding to AST level
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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