Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I think this looks promising.
Don't worry too much about the modest timing improvement. For the most part, we should almost always take steps to eliminate work that is known to be unnecessary. The timings serve as a guide but it would be easy for us to get trapped in local minimums on a particular machine or compiler. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21148> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com