[Pyrex] Early-binding of builtins?

[Greg Ewing]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> when I look at the code generated by Pyrex, I see that it totally mimcs
> Python's semantic for global name lookups,

Not quite - it determines at compile time whether
a name is module-level or builtin.

> and also builtins are not
> early-bound but instead looked up in the namespace.

That's true. It would be possible to pre-bind them
to C variables in the module init code, and I may
consider doing that some time.

I already have plans to optimise access to some of
the more frequently-used builtins by calling the
corresponding C API function directly, which should
be even better.

--
Greg