[Patches] Patch: AttributeError and NameError: second attempt.

[Nick Mathewson]

Not that it matters any more, but I thought I'd answer this question.
The reasoning is kind of neat.

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> modified python:          22.790u 0.030s
>
>You mean CVS Python + your patch ? If yes, how can there be
>a speedup of this amount ?
>
>> cvs python, unmodified:   32.920u 0.000s
>> python 1.6a2:             39.850u 0.060s
>> python 1.5.2:             33.380u 0.020s

Because we're only testing the time it takes to generate and throw the
exception.  When you throw an AttributeError on an Object now, you
need to generate a new string containing the Object's type and the
missing attribute.  With my patch, even _this_ work was postponed until
you printed the exception.

-- 
Nick