[Python-ideas] Fast global cacheless lookup
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Nov 23 00:33:15 CET 2007
Neil Toronto wrote:
> The hard
> part may be distinguishing LOAD_ATTR applied to self from LOAD_ATTR
> applied to something else.
Why would you *want* to distinguish that? A decent attribute
lookup acceleration mechanism should work for attributes of
any object, not just self. Think method calls, which are
probably even more common than accesses to globals.
--
Greg
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