Sorry, all of these are useless for the general distribution.

* Increasing the ticker rollovers will give a tiny speed-up but would hurt the responsiveness of multi-threaded applications.

* The tracing functions are needed in the general distribution and should not be shut-off.

* The NOP case is a fail-safe; not essential, but not detrimental either.  The peephole optimizer introduces NOPS and then clears them out.  If someone makes a change leaving them in or if they are generating their own bytecode, we don't want the eval-loop to fail.

* The JUMP_ABSOLUTE step needs to make a full trip through the eval-loop or else it won't be possible to break out of a "while 1: pass".




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