Claudiu.Popa added the comment:
Here's a benchmark:
- with current patch:
# ./python -S -m timeit -n 10000 -s 'import dbm.dumb as dbm;
d=dbm.open("x.dat", "c");d.close()' 'try:' ' len(d)' 'except OSError:' ' pass'
10000 loops, best of 3: 1.78 usec per loop
- using
try:
return len(self._index)
except TypeError:
raise error('...')
# ./python -S -m timeit -n 10000 -s 'import dbm.dumb as dbm;
d=dbm.open("x.dat", "c");d.close()' 'try:' ' len(d)' 'except OSError:' ' pass'
10000 loops, best of 3: 3.27 usec per loop
Now this seems odd, maybe catching + reraising an exception has a greater
overhead than a func call and checking if an attribute is None. Anyway, I agree
that dbm.dumb is not performance critical.
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