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    http://bugs.python.org/issue4715 · 9de7ec78
    Jeffrey Yasskin yazdı
    This patch by Antoine Pitrou optimizes the bytecode for conditional branches by
    merging the following "POP_TOP" instruction into the conditional jump.  For
    example, the list comprehension "[x for x in l if not x]" produced the
    following bytecode:
    
      1           0 BUILD_LIST               0
                  3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0)
            >>    6 FOR_ITER                23 (to 32)
                  9 STORE_FAST               1 (x)
                 12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
                 15 JUMP_IF_TRUE            10 (to 28)
                 18 POP_TOP
                 19 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
                 22 LIST_APPEND              2
                 25 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
            >>   28 POP_TOP
                 29 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
            >>   32 RETURN_VALUE
    
    but after the patch it produces the following bytecode:
    
      1           0 BUILD_LIST               0
                  3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0)
            >>    6 FOR_ITER                18 (to 27)
                  9 STORE_FAST               1 (x)
                 12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
                 15 POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE         6
                 18 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
                 21 LIST_APPEND              2
                 24 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
            >>   27 RETURN_VALUE
    
    Notice that not only the code is shorter, but the conditional jump
    (POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE) jumps right to the start of the loop instead of going through
    the JUMP_ABSOLUTE at the end. "continue" statements are helped
    similarly.
    
    Furthermore, the old jump opcodes (JUMP_IF_FALSE, JUMP_IF_TRUE) have been
    replaced by two new opcodes:
    - JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP, which jumps if true and pops otherwise
    - JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP, which jumps if false and pops otherwise
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