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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2008-01-15 01:55:32 (GMT)
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@@ -675,9 +675,11 @@ Optimizations
* Type objects now have a cache of methods that can reduc
the amount of work required to find the correct method implementation
- for a particular class; the interpreter may not need to traverse base
- classes
-
+ for a particular class; once cached, the interpreter doesn't need to
+ traverse base classes to figure out the right method to call.
+ The cache is cleared if a base class or the class itself is modified,
+ so the cache should remain correct even in the face of Python's dynamic
+ nature.
(Original optimization implemented by Armin Rigo, updated for
Python 2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.)