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kingkilr on May 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wield Python's super() like a Jedi

Unfortunately on PyPy super is less efficient than refering directly to the parent classes method, however it's fixable (and will be fixed).

veyron on May 26, 2011 [–]

Do you have some sort of timing measure?

kingkilr on May 27, 2011 | [–]

No, I haven't timed it myself, I just know how it's implemented and what code we're generating internally.

Edit: To be clear I would not advocate not using super() on account of this, as I said it'll eventually be fixed.

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