[Python-Dev] Silly little benchmark

[Thomas Wouters]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:13:16AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Tim> AFAIK, nobody did anything *except* discuss it so far.  Insert an
>     Tim> early special case for sequence cat, and you slow each numeric
>     Tim> addition by the time it takes to fail that test, so there's no
>     Tim> killer argument either way.  int+int is special-cased by
>     Tim> BINARY_ADD, but everything else goes thru the general machinery.

> Hmmm... What file we talkin' about Willis?

ceval.c, just look for BINARY_ADD.

> If we did

>     test for int+int
>     test for string+string
>     general machinery

> we might speed up a couple very common cases enough to have an overall win.

Don't forget to do meaningful performance comparisons before and after ;P

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