[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Neil Schemenauer]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I think that there could be some low-hanging fruit in inlining certain
> builtins (e.g. len, range, xrange) that as far as we know aren't
> shadowed by globals.  Is that what you call non-local namespace
> optimizations?

I meant continuing work started by Ping, Jeremy, and you on non-local
namespaces (something other than dicts).  Tim's suggestion of optimizing
function calls sounds like another good one.

  Neil