Yury Selivanov <yseliva...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> So you think that even a dedicated "LEN" opcode would not be any faster? > (This is getting in Paul Sokolovsky territory -- IIRC he has a variant of > Python that doesn't allow overriding builtins.) Yeah, a dedicated LEN opcode could only be faster if it would not be possible to shadow builtins (or if there was a "len" operator in Python). If that's not the case, this hypothetical LEN opcode would still have to check if "len" was shadowed or not, and that's slower than the optimized LOAD_GLOBAL we have now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42990> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
