[Python-Dev] Who cares about the performance of these opcodes?

[Michael Hudson]

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> Hm.  Makes me wonder, actually, if a hand-written eval loop in
> assembly code might not kick some serious butt.

Not enough to be worth it, I'd hazard.

> Or maybe a bytecode-to-assembly translator, writing loads in-line
> and using registers as the stack, calling functions where necessary.
> Ah, if only I were a teenager again, with little need to sleep, and
> unlimited time to hack...  :)

This exists already, though.  I'll let you guess the name.

Cheers,
mwh

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