This across the board speedup of the python byte code looks promising! I'm
not familiar enough with that part of the code to review it but here's a big
+1
to make sure someone else takes a look.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wow, thanks to both
Wow, thanks to both of you (Phillip & Skip) for the fast answers.
Just in case anyone has time to spare, I have more pesky questions (and a
working patch :-)) in the aforementioned bug entry
(http://bugs.python.org/issue2459).
Regards
Antoine.
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At 10:43 PM 3/22/2008 +, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>- Why are there both relative and absolute jump instructions? The traditional
>rationale for relative jumps (apart from position-independent code)
>is to allow
>for shorter operand sizes; but Python opcodes all have the same operand size
Actuall
Antoine> - Why are there both relative and absolute jump instructions?
The best place to search for the reasons behind this is Python/compile.c.
(JUMP_ABSOLUTE can jump backwards.) There have been lots and lots of
changes to the Python virtual machine the past few years. When trying to
under
