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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-01-16 18:37:38 (GMT)
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Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave Malcolm.
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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6690: Optimize the bytecode for expressions such as `x in {1, 2, 3}`,
+ where the right hand operand is a set of constants, by turning the set into
+ a frozenset and pre-building it as a constant. The comparison operation
+ is made against the constant instead of building a new set each time it is
+ executed (a similar optimization already existed which turned a list of
+ constants into a pre-built tuple). Patch and additional tests by Dave
+ Malcolm.
+
- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
implementation based on stringlib's fast search. Patch by Florent Xicluna.