[pypy-dev] unroll if

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

On 08/02/2011 11:41 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Carl Friedrich Bolz<cfbolz at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> I don't have much time for things, about to leave on vacation. Just so
>> that it doesn't get lost: on the unrolling-if branch, if you use the
>> decorator, the JIT should *not* look inside the function if the
>> condition if false. even if the function doesn't contain a loop. so
>> maybe the decorators should be renamed to unroll_iff (too
>> mathematical?) or unroll_exactly_if.
>
> Then it has nothing to do with unrolling: it should be renamed to
> something like "look_inside_if".  It just happens to mean, as a
> side-effect, "if the condition is true, then look inside even in case
> there is a loop, thus unrolling it".

look_inside_iff then? :-)

Carl Friedrich