[Python-Dev] Can LOAD_GLOBAL be optimized to a simple array lookup?

[K.S.Sreeram]

Tim Peters wrote:
> Note that there are already three PEPs related to speeding dict-based
> namespace access; start with:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0280/
> 
> which references the other two.
> 
> The "normal path" through dict lookups got faster since there was a
> rash of those, to the extent that more complication elsewhere got much
> less attractive.  It's possible that dict lookups got slower again
> since /then/, though.

Thanks! Looks like i'm only proposing what is already there in pep-267
by Jeremy Hylton.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0267/

cheers
[sreeram;]

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