[Python-Dev] tiny optimization in ceval mainloop

[Steve Holden]

> Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > The difference I saw with only the ticker check in ceval was only
> > about 1% for pystone.  Python was always faster with the change, but
> > never by much.
>
> A bunch of 0.5% improvements add up.  If there's not much cost in
> complexity, why not go for it?
>

Yeah, right, we just need 200 of them and we're laughing. Computation in
infinitesimal time.

suddenly-dwim-mode-is-possib-ly y'rs  - steve
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