[Python-Dev] Who cares about the performance of these opcodes? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Mar 9 09:57:34 EST 2004


"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

Hm. Makes me wonder, actually, if a hand-written eval loop in assembly code might not kick some serious butt.

Not enough to be worth it, I'd hazard.

Or maybe a bytecode-to-assembly translator, writing loads in-line and using registers as the stack, calling functions where necessary. Ah, if only I were a teenager again, with little need to sleep, and unlimited time to hack... :)

This exists already, though. I'll let you guess the name.

Cheers, mwh

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