[pypy-dev] Poor performance with custom bytecode

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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Hi Timothy.

First question - why did you choose to implement this as a compiler to
python bytecode? It does sound like an interpreter written in rpython
would have both a much better performance and a much easier
implementation (compiler vs interpreter).

Cheers,
fijal