Simple question about how the optimizer works

[jb]

Andrew Dalke wrote:

> 
> Unless the compiler could look (somehow!) into the definition of each
> __nonzero__, or disable optimizations if _getframe(), sys.exc_info(), etc.
> are used *anywhere* in the Python code, then there's no way it can build
> that optimization.

And what about pure calculations? Let for example a,b and c be long 
integers. Then what about

A=a*b*c+1



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Js Bi

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(Dumas) 



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