[Python-Dev] tuning up...

[Guido van Rossum]

> > But the rest is still impressive; I can't remember what we did...
> 
> Pymalloc?  New-style object construction speedups?  Faster getitem and
> setitem paths?  These are just a few things that made speed differences in
> our app.  I'm not familiar enough with pystone to know if (or which) of
> these are the lucky winners...

Probably pymalloc, plus some function call speedups that Jeremy added
very recently.  Pystone doesn't use new-style objects.  I don't recall
what we changed in getitem/setitem.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)