[Zope-dev] local namespace optimizations?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 5. Juli 2006 19:00:52 +0100 Tim Hicks <tim at sitefusion.co.uk> wrote:

> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> Is anyone opposed to me removing the stupid:
>>         _getattr = getattr
>>         _none = None
>>         marker = _marker
>> local namespace """optimizations""" that are found in
>> unrestrictedTraverse?
>
> I find these things rather confusing when looking at zope core code, and
> always wondered why they were there.  In what sense are they
> optimisations?

Evil tricks from the ancient Zope world. Such lookups were faster because 
the items were directly found in the local namespace so one saved time 
looking them up in the global namespace.

-aj

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