[Types-sig] Low-hanging fruit: recognizing builtins

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> 
> Dynamic bytecode registration would slow the PVM too much.  

I was thinking of just changing this:

default:
	handler = handlers[opcode];
	if( handler ){
		handler( f );
	}else{

		fprintf(stderr,

			"XXX lineno: %d, opcode: %d\n",

			f->f_lineno, opcode);

		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError, "unknown opcode");

		why = WHY_EXCEPTION;

		break;
	}


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