[Python-ideas] Do we need non-heap types any more? (Was: Implicit submodule imports)

[Sturla Molden]

Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid>
wrote:
 
> On what modern CPU does unlikely have any effect at all? x86 has an
> opcode to provide static branch prediction hints, but it's been a no-op
> since Core 2; ARM doesn't have one; I don't know about other instruction
> sets but I'd be surprised if they did.

http://madalanarayana.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/__builtin_expect-a-must-for-stack-developers/

http://benyossef.com/helping-the-compiler-help-you/