dynamism

[Michael Chermside]

Duncan Booth wrote:
>  Oh, and the -O flag on
> the CVS build has no measurable effect.

There's a reason for that. Effectively, some clever tricks (and core 
loop rewrites) have been added which puts Python into (the equivilant 
of) -O mode all the time, by calculating line numbers seperately when 
needed instead of generating SET_LINENO bytecodes. At least, that's what 
I thought I understood it to be doing.

Anything that speeds up essentially all Python programs iss OK by me!

-- Michael Chermside