[Python-Dev] Wordcode: new regular bytecode using 16-bit units (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 11:59:23 EDT 2016

On 13.04.16 19:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Nice work. I think that for CPython, speed is much more important than memory use for the code. Disk space is practically free for anything smaller than a video. :-)

I collected statistics for use opcodes with different arguments during running CPython tests. Estimated size with using wordcode is 1.33 times less than with using current bytecode.

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