Why is Python so slow ?- revisited.

[Michael Hudson]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

> It won't matter a hoot in function calls, as all that happens string
> literals in a void context is that they get added to the functions'
> constants tuple (function.func_code.co_consts.)  And that happens at
> compiletime (which can be at runtime, of course, if you use exec()
> or import an uncompiled module, but if you do that often you
> shouldn't whine about performance ;-)

PyTrivia: isolated string constants are *not* added to co_consts,
they're just dropped.

Cheers,
M.

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