Programming intro book ch1 and ch2 (Windows/Python 3) - Request For Comments

[John Bokma]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

> CPython 2.5 and on has a keyhole optimizer that replaces many constant 
                           ^^^^^^^
Shouldn't that be peephole?

> expressions with pre-computed values.

And that's called constant folding.

Unless I misread your post (or have been out of touch with compiler
building too long)

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