[Python-Dev] Python 3 optimizations... (original) (raw)

stefan brunthaler sbrunthaler at gmail.com
Thu Jul 22 15:36:56 CEST 2010

The Springer link [1] at least shows the front page to give more of an idea as to what this is about. Thanks, I forgot to mention the link.

The idea does sound potentially interesting, although I'm not sure how applicable it will be with a full-blown LLVM-based JIT on the way for 3.3 (via Unladen Swallow). Yeah, I see that. However, I think that a JIT compiler could very well re-use the information gathered by using my techniques to generate better code in the first run. There certainly are a couple of other benefits for combining both approaches, i.e., they are not mutually exclusive.

Depending on the size and complexity of the patches, it may still be worth exploring for 3.2. I am currently not aware of the planned release schedule, but I think that some of the techniques could very well be released in 3.2 -- with a conditional compilation target similar to the computed-goto feature.

Regards, --stefan

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