[Python-Dev] optimizing non-local object access

[Martin v. Loewis]

[Martin]
> Would that catch changes like [accessing __dict__]

[Jeremy]
> It would because __dict__ wouldn't be a dictionary

[Guido]

> In 2.2, if you don't use __getitem__ for access-by-number, you could
> subclass dictionary and add a separate set of APIs to access the
> variables by number (and to assign numbers to them in the first
> place).  Then it would still behave like a real dictionary enough to
> be usable for the PyDict_* C API functions.

But then, changes that happen through PyDict_SetItem would not be
tracked for the dlict objects, would they (assuming that the dlict
objects keep an additional array per dictionary which needs to be
updated)?

Regards,
Martin