How about RETURN_NONE vs LOAD_CONST 0 (None); RETURN_VALUE ?
Martin v. Löwis
martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Dec 12 01:51:53 EST 2002
bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:
> The boilerplate always returns None, so why not minimize the boilerplate
> to one byte code?
See python.org/sf/587993. RETURN_NONE was implemented, then taken out
again. Ask Google for RETURN_NONE, there are plenty of prior
discussions.
> E.g., when would it be unsafe to eliminate it if the last statement
> in the function is a return at indent level 1 ?
That would be safe, yes. Did you try to implement it?
Regards,
Martin
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