Doug Hellmann: looking for a loop optimization example

Thursday, August 20, 2009 looking for a loop optimization example I'm working on a PyMOTW post about the dis module. As one of the examples, I'd like to show how to use dis to reduce the number of opcodes processed in a loop as an optimization technique. I'm looking for some "naive" code that looks OK, but doesn't perform especially well on large datasets. So far I have a class that reads /usr/sha