Integer division (was: Case-sensitivity... (was: Damnation!))

[Juergen A. Erhard]

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>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

    François> Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> écrit:

    >> [...] Try to single-step

    >> python -c '1/2'

    >> And see that the hardware instruction is lost in a sea of function calls
    >> and jumps all over the place.

    François> You are surely right, and are exposing my naivety :-).
    François> But do not deprive me of all my dreams.  Let's not give
    François> so soon into the thinking that Python might never be
    François> cleverly compilable.  Who knows if things would not
    François> evolve in a direction that might allow such things, one
    François> of these days.

But then we can also dream of a Python that optimizes `int(1/2)' to
mean `1 div 2' (`div' here being an integer only division of course).

Bye, J

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