[Python-Dev] Python 2.3 release schedule

[Guido van Rossum]

[Oren Tirosh]
> My fastnames patch achieves much of what these PEPs are aiming for with 
> minimal changes to the interpreter: http://tothink.com/python/fastnames

Mm, interesting.  I must've missed this post in the busy days after
the conference. :-(

Two observations:

- Your benchmarks use an almost empty dict (for locals and globals at
  least).  I'd like to see how they perform with a realistic number of
  other names in the dict

- I'm worried that negative dict entries could fill the dict beyond
  its capacity.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)