[Python-Dev] Silly little benchmark
Guido van Rossum
guido@digicool.com
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:16:16 -0400
> > """It looks like the new coercion rules have optimized number ops at the
> > expense of string ops.
>
> Is there still an intention to get rid of centralised
> coercion and move it all into the relevant methods?
This has been done (except for complex).
> If that were done, wouldn't problems like this go
> away (or at least turn into a different set of
> problems)?
I'm not sure what that remark refers to, actually.
BINARY_ADD and BINARY_SUBTRACT just test if both args are ints and
then in-line the work; BINARY_SUBSCRIPT does the same thing for
list[int]. I don't think it has anything to do with coercions. When
the operands are strings, the costs are one pointer deref + compare to
link-time constant, and one jump (over the inlined code).
Small things add up, but I doubt that this is responsible for any
particular slow-down.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)