[Python-Dev] Code Generation Idea Was: Bytecode idea

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:53:22 -0600


    Raymond> There is a piece of low hanging fruit in "while True"
    Raymond> constructs.  If the code generator can recognize it, ...

Yes, that would improve things, but it gets back to the issue that True
isn't strictly speaking a constant, but has to be evaluated each pass around
the loop.

None is moving slowly toward becoming a true constant.  Perhaps the same
should be true of True and False.

Skip