[Python-Dev] Why is Bytecode the way it is?
Christopher T King
squirrel at WPI.EDU
Thu Jul 15 14:56:34 CEST 2004
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> At the cost of an extra pointer dereference and jump, and usually for
> naught (the uses of LOAD_CONST not in a return statement must
> certainly vastly outnumber those in return statements).
Hm, I didn't think the extra three or so assembler opcodes needed would
make that big of an impact on the loop, given all the other things it
does. Guess it was a just bad idea :)
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