[Python-Dev] Eliminating the block stack (was Re: Store x Load x --> DupStore)

[Greg Ewing]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 2/20/05 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
>> At 07:00 PM 2/20/05 +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
>>
>>> Eliminating the blockstack would be nice (esp. if it's enough to get
>>> frames small enough that they get allocated by PyMalloc)

Someone might like to take a look at the way Pyrex
generates C code for try-except and try-finally blocks.
It manages to get (what I hope is) the same effect
using local variables and gotos.

It doesn't have to deal with a stack pointer, but
I think that should just be a compiler-determinable
adjustment to be done when jumping to an outer
block.

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