A PYTHON PREPROCESSOR

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> 
> > Inlining of methods!
> > 
> > Since python variable name / method lookup is so expensive, I believe
> > this would be a significant speedup.  Comments?
> 
> But this would require compile time type analysis.
> Typically, when you see code of the form ``obj.method(arg)'',
> *you* (the programmer) have a good idea of what the class of
> obj would be at run-time -- but the poor Python parser does
> not share this knowledge.

Hmm.  It would be possible to do inlining of functions, though, right?
I suppose this isn't quite the same thing as inlining methods, but it
would still be helpful. (and with the extra "self" argument, you can
make it *behave* like inlined methods)

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