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hayd
on Jan 31, 2016
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Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you'...
The scope lifting (I forget what this performance hack is called), `_len = len` etc., is unsatisfying.
elliptic
on Jan 31, 2016
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I noticed that, but haven't any idea what the purpose is?
pmiller2
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It's a speed optimization. Local lookups are faster than global lookups in Python.
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