Speeding Up Python

Question

This is really two questions, but they are so similar, and to keep it simple, I figured I\'d just roll them together:

• Firstly: Given an est

Answer 1

First thing that comes to mind: psyco. It runs only on x86, for the time being.

Then, constant binding. That is, make all global references (and global.attr, global.attr.attr…) be local names inside of functions and methods. This isn't always successful, but in general it works. It can be done by hand, but obviously is tedious.

You said apart from in-code optimization, so I won't delve into this, but keep your mind open for typical mistakes (for i in range(10000000) comes to mind) that people do.