Speed quirk: redundant line gives six-fold speedup

[Erik Max Francis]

Mark Dickinson wrote:

> Questions:
> 
> (1) Can anyone else reproduce this behaviour, or is it just some quirk
>     of my setup?
> (2) Any possible explanations?  Is there some optimization that kicks
>     in at a certain number of lines, or at a certain length of
>     bytecode?
> (3) If (2), is there some way to force the optimization, so that I can
>     get the speed increase without having to add the extra lines?

I see no difference in execution times, as expected.  The most likely 
explanation is simply that other things were going on on your system 
when you ran the first test, but not the second test, resulting in the 
discrepancy.  In other words, the speed change had nothing to do with 
your dummy lines.

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