[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

[Raymond Hettinger]

> On May 27, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 28 May 2015 at 10:17, Parasa, Srinivas Vamsi <srinivas.vamsi.parasa at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> This is Vamsi from Server Scripting Languages Optimization team at Intel Corporation.
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> Would like to submit a request to enable the computed goto based dispatch in Python 2.x (which happens to be enabled by default in Python 3 given its performance benefits on a wide range of workloads). We talked about this patch with Guido and he encouraged us to submit a request on Python-dev (email conversation with Guido shown at the bottom of this email).
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> +1 from me, for basically the same reasons Guido gives: Python 2.7 is going to be with us for a long time, and this particular change shouldn't have any externally visible impacts at either an ABI or API level.

+1 from me a well.   We probably should have done this long ago.


Raymond Hettinger