[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if C++ compilers can do such optimizations.
working on a Python to C/C++ translator without knowing what kind of optimizations a C/C++ compiler can do for you sounds like a great way to waste your time... (I would be rather bit surprised if any contemporary C or C++ compiler didn't generate optimal machine code for source code that contains swaps like the one you posted. it won't look at just the swap statement, however; the interesting thing is where the values came from, and what you're doing with the values later on. minimizing the number of assignment statements in the swap translation won't change a thing...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
