Building CPython

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/15/2015 4:59 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Must a method lookup necessarily involve object creation?

Where is matters, inside loops, method lookup can be avoided after doing 
it once.

for i in range(1000000): ob.meth(i)

versus

meth = ob.meth
for i in range(1000000): meth(i)

For working with a single stack:

a = []
apush = stack.append
apop = stack.pop
# Now apush(x), apop(x), and test with 'if a:' as desired.
Being able to do this was part of my rational for adding list.pop, about 
15 years ago.

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Terry Jan Reedy