[Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 24 00:29:59 CEST 2008


Daniel Stutzbach wrote:

> With threaded code, every handler ends with its own dispatcher, so the 
> processor can make fine-grained predictions.

I'm still wondering whether all this stuff makes a
noticeable difference in real-life Python code, which
spends most of its time doing expensive things like
attribute lookups and function calls, rather than
fiddling with integers in local variables.

-- 
Greg


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