A modest proposal (continued)

[Skip Montanaro]

    John> Didn't we discuss this a month or two ago? There was quite a bit
    John> of talk about speeding up access to module level names and so
    John> forth, even going into the changes needed in the bytecode set, and
    John> possibly even an implementation.

Go to http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/ and check out PEPs 266 and 267.
There will possibly be a Developer's Day session on optimization.

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