[Python-Dev] Accessing globals without dict lookup

David Ascher DavidA@ActiveState.com
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:16:07 -0800


Tim Peters wrote:

> Maybe more interesting:  One of the folks at Zope Corp reported getting
> significant speedups by using some gcc option that can feed real-life branch
> histories back into the compiler.  Less work and less error-prone than
> guessing annotations.

Slightly OT: Has anyone tried compiling Python w/ the Intel C++
compiler? 

--david