[Python-Dev] Wordcode v2 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Feb 15 02:20:05 EST 2016


Guido van Rossum wrote:

An unfortunate issue however is that many projects seem to make a hobby of hacking bytecode. All those projects would have to be totally rewritten in order to support the new wordcode format

Maybe this argues for having an assembly-language-like intermediate form between the AST and the actual code used by the interpreter? Done properly it could make things easier for bytecode-hacking projects as well as providing some insulation from implementation details.

-- Greg



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