Links:
- Me: https://twitter.com/wolever
- The StackOverflow question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28885132/why-is-x-in-x-faster-than-x-x
- Alison Kaptur’s post on the peephole optimizer:
http://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/02/the-cpython-peephole-optimizer-and-you/
- ctags: http://ctags.sourceforge.net
- Computed gotos:
https://bugs.python.org/issue4753
and http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-efficient-dispatch-tables
- String interning: http://guilload.com/python-string-interning/