Building CPython

[Marko Rauhamaa]

BartC <bc at freeuk.com>:

> That's a shame because I wanted to tinker with the main dispatcher
> loop to try and find out what exactly is making it slow. Nothing that
> seems obvious at first sight.

My guess is the main culprit is attribute lookup in two ways:

 * Each object attribute reference involves a dictionary lookup.

 * Each method call involves *two* dictionary lookups plus an object
   creation.

Tell us what you find out.


Marko