[Pyrex] Pyrex optimization chitchat

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Prescod:

> cdef x(list foo):
> 	foo.append(5)
> 
> Should the compiler expand that to optimized PyList_Append code or call 
> a method by name?

I think it really has to do a method lookup. Even if foo is
declared to be a list, it might be a subclass of list that
overrides the append method.

It might be worth having some special Pyrex builtins such
as listappend for things like this.

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