On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:29:27 -0600, John Bokma wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > >> CPython 2.5 and on has a keyhole optimizer that replaces many constant > ^^^^^^^ > Shouldn't that be peephole?
Alternate names for the same thing. >> expressions with pre-computed values. > > And that's called constant folding. Yes. > Unless I misread your post (or have been out of touch with compiler > building too long) No :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
