[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Brett Cannon]

[Guido van Rossum]

> I was thinking of adding appropriate new opcodes for a few builtins
> that are called a lot, like len.  This would be implemented using
> something like this:
>

Wasn't there also a suggestion (I think Christian made just before Minimal
Python was announced) to have the parser know what built-ins were and thus
just inline the code?

I think it's time the eval loop and I to get acquianted...

-Brett