Why is Python so slow ?- revisited.

[Andy Freeman]

In article <m34s6l4flf.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
  Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Certainly at some point there was no LOAD_FAST opcode; every name
> lookup would first look into a local dict, then the global one, then
> the builtins.  Now references to locals are just indexes into (C)
> vectors; this is much quicker.

Is there a standard way to turn off this optimization on a def
by def basis?

-andy


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