PROGRAMMING, PYTHON

Optimization in Python — Peephole

A brief introduction to Python’s Peephole optimization technique

Chetan Ambi
Published in
4 min readAug 21, 2020

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Before we dive into the details of peephole optimization, let us try to understand how Python code is executed. As the Python program runs, source code gets compiled into a set of instructions called bytecode. This intermediate bytecode is…

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