Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: You are right, of course: bound methods are currently created fresh on each access, even though each is equal except for identity. I was thinking in terms of >>> str.join is str.join True
This appears to be a classic time-space tradeoff: caching bound methods, which is what I understand Raymond's patch does (when the attribute is a method), saves time (with enough reuses) but takes space that could gradually grow. The reply to the OP could be that people who care about time should use the standard idiom of explicitly savingthe bound method: >>> bjoin = ''.join ... On the other hand, such bindings look a bit messy and tend to be local. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6133> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
