[Python-Dev] Bytecode idea

[Raymond Hettinger]

> This is true. I used this in my optimization from two
> years ago, and moved the oparg preparation into the
> opcode cases, not doing any test, but just fetching
> the argument.

What happened to the optimization.  It is not in the
current code?

> I also turned this into macros which
> added to the insn pointer only once.
> Incredible but true: Most of the win I gathered was
> by typecasting the oparg access differently into
> a reference to a short int, instead of oring two
> bytes. 

I skipped over that one because I thought that 
it would fail on a big-endian computer.


Raymond Hettinger