[Python-Dev] [ANN] VPython 0.1

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Oct 23 06:19:47 CEST 2008


David Ripton wrote:
>> Feedback is, of course, very welcome and it'd be great to have some pybench 
>> results from different machines.
> 
> My results are very similar to Jakob's.

 From looking thru the vmgen manual, there are two things it is doing 
that CPython is not.  1. gcc-specific threaded code; claim doubles 
speed. 2. caching top of stack in a register; claim increases speed 
0-40%, depending on system.



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