[pypy-dev] cpyext performance

[Stefan Behnel]

Maciej Fijalkowski, 04.07.2012 10:48:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
>> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, 03.07.2012 18:26:
>>> No optimization of any kind have been done in cpyext (it's difficult
>>> enough to get it right...)
>>> A freelist would be a nice thing, but there would still be the cost of
>>> attaching the PyObject to the pypy w_object.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should use a weak dictionary to cache the PyObject structure.
>>> This already exists for objects defined and created from C...
>>
>> Is there a PyPy Wiki somewhere where we could collect this kind of ideas?
>>
>> There's also stuff like reusing the PyObject on things like
>> PyNumber_InPlaceAdd() if the refcount is 1, for example.
>
> Feel free to use the wiki on bitbucket.

Done.

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/wiki/Speeding%20up%20cpyext

Stefan