[pypy-dev] Poor performance with custom bytecode

[Antonio Cuni]

On 02/17/2012 02:27 PM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:
>> In pypy we have a custom opcode to call methods, which is much faster than
>> LOAD_ATTR/CALL_FUNCTION. See e.g. how this piece of code gets compiled:
>>
>
> Excellent! I was unaware of this. Just last night I started
> abstracting some bytecode generation to support both 2.6 and 2.7, so
> it won't be hard to slot in improvements for pypy.
>
>  From there, I'll start looking into jitviewer.

I suggest to look at the jitviewer before doing this. I might be wrong and 
LOAD_ATTR/CALL_FUNCTION be efficient enough, I don't know.

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ciao,
Anto