Motivation is optimizing handling of various constructs as well as
understanding which constructs are more efficient in MicroPython.
More info: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=77
Results are wildly unexpected. For example, "optimization" of range
iteration into while loop makes it twice as slow. Generally, the more
bytecodes, the slower the code.
Paul Sokolovsky