Adam Olsen wrote:
To clarify: This is *NOT* actually a form of threading, is it?
I think the term "threaded code" is being used here in the sense of Forth, i.e. instead of a sequence of small integers that are dispatched using a switch statement, you use the actual machine addresses of the switched-to code as the virtual instruction opcodes, so the dispatch is just an indirect jump. I'm having trouble seeing how that would help with branch prediction, though -- seems to me it should make it worse if anything, since the CPU has no idea where an indirect jump is going to go. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
