[Python-Dev] default of returning None hurts performance?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Tue Sep 1 00:28:39 CEST 2009


2009/8/31 Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org>:
> I was just wondering if a bytecode for a superinstruction of the common
> sequence:
>
>              6 POP_TOP
>               7 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
>              10 RETURN_VALUE
>
> might be worth it.

We could just utilize RETURN_VALUE's op argument.



-- 
Regards,
Benjamin


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