Le mar. 26 févr. 2019 à 23:40, Greg Ewing greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz a écrit :
Victor Stinner wrote:
LOAD_CONST_REG R0, 2 (const#2) LOAD_GLOBAL_REG R1, 'range' (name#0) CALL_FUNCTION_REG 4, R1, R1, R0, 'n'
Out of curiosity, why is the function being passed twice here?
Ah, I should have explained that :-) The first argument of CALL_FUNCTION_REG is the name of the register used to store the result.
The compiler begins with using static single assignment form (SSA) but then uses a register allocator to reduce the number of used registers. Usually, at the end you have less than 5 registers for a whole function.
Since R1 was only used to store the function before the call and isn't used after, the R1 register can be re-used.
Using a different register may require an explicit "CLEAR_REG R1" (decref the reference to the builtin range function) which is less efficient.
Note: The CALL_FUNCTION instruction using the stack implicitly put the result into the stack (and "pop" function arguments from the stack).
Victor