[Python-Dev] Re: tp_clear return value

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:33:05 -0400


[Tim]
>> could become the simpler and faster

[martin@v.loewis.de]
> How much faster,

Won't know until it's tried.

> and for what example?

Code that spends signficant time in tp_traverse, presumably.

> Beautiful is better than ugly.

Whish is another reason <wink> it would be nice to get rid of the endlessly
repeated masses of ugly

	if (err)
		return err;

incantations out of the many tp_traverse slots, in return for putting a
little bit of setjmp/longjmp ugliness in exactly four functions hiding in a
single module.