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Commit 816413e4 authored by Damien George's avatar Damien George
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py: Optimise types for common case where type has a single parent type.

The common cases for inheritance are 0 or 1 parent types, for both built-in
types (eg built-in exceptions) as well as user defined types.  So it makes
sense to optimise the case of 1 parent type by storing just the type and
not a tuple of 1 value (that value being the single parent type).

This patch makes such an optimisation.  Even though there is a bit more
code to handle the two cases (either a single type or a tuple with 2 or
more values) it helps reduce overall code size because it eliminates the
need to create a static tuple to hold single parents (eg for the built-in
exceptions).  It also helps reduce RAM usage for user defined types that
only derive from a single parent.

Changes in code size (in bytes) due to this patch:

    bare-arm:       -16
    minimal (x86): -176
    unix (x86-64): -320
    unix nanbox:   -384
    stmhal:         -64
    cc3200:         -32
    esp8266:       -108
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