Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: -1 I don't think this is worth the semantic change. The current approach doesn't require special cases for different dict sizes. The code/time savings is very small (seven bytes of opcodes per item get condensed by only one byte and the cost of one time around the eval- loop is tiny in comparison to the cost of inserting a new dict entry). Besides, dict literals almost never occur in the inner-loops of time critical code.
I recommend that this stay closed. Better to aim for meaningful optimizations using the AST and avoid micro-optimizations that subtly change semantics. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2197> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
