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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-05-11 21:51:48 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-05-11 21:51:48 (GMT) |
| commit | d85e102337725554a43027fe90e54dd886f4ec9a (patch) | |
| tree | d0bc76afbeace03a71537ba84504c2eea891c171 /Misc | |
| parent | 564a6cc8cae4cd9461c01ac4c7a14915744bcc1e (diff) | |
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Variant of patch #423262: Change module attribute get & set
Allow module getattr and setattr to exploit string interning, via the
previously null module object tp_getattro and tp_setattro slots. Yields
a very nice speedup for things like random.random and os.path etc.
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@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ Core 'x in y' and 'x not in y' (PySequence_Contains() in C API) operator.countOf() (PySequence_Count() in C API) +- Accessing module attributes is significantly faster (for example, + random.random or os.path or yourPythonModule.yourAttribute). + - Comparing dictionary objects via == and != is faster, and now works even if the keys and values don't support comparisons other than ==. |