On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Most school I proponents (perhaps you're the only exception) have > claimed that optimization is desirable, but added that it would be > easy to add hash-based optimization. IMO it's not so easy in the light > of various failure modes of hash(). (A possible solution would be to > only use hashing if the expression's type is one of a small set of > trusted builtins, and not a subclass; we can trust int.__hash__, > str.__hash__ and a few others.)
That's a good idea! At first glance, it seems like that could lead to a plausible compromise. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
