Pre-PEP: Dictionary accumulator methods

[Paul Rubin]

"Raymond Hettinger" <vze4rx4y at verizon.net> writes:
> I find the disassembly (presented in the first post) to be telling.
> The compiler has done a great job and there is no fluff -- all of
> those steps have been specified by the programmer and he/she must at
> some level be aware of every one of them (pre-instantiation,
> multiple method lookups and calls, multiple dictionary accesses, etc).

If the compiler can do some type inference, it can optimize out those
multiple calls pretty straightforwardly.