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

stefan brunthaler stefan at brunthaler.net
Tue Aug 30 20:23:56 CEST 2011

Do I sense that the bytecode format is no longer platform-independent? That will need a bit of discussion. I bet there are some things around that depend on that. Hm, I haven't really thought about that in detail and for longer, I ran it on PowerPC 970 and Intel Atom & i7 without problems (the latter ones are a non-issue) and think that it can be portable. I just stuff argument and opcode into one word for regular instruction decoding like a RISC CPU, and I realize there might be little/big endian issues, but they surely can be conditionally compiled...

--stefan

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