[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2

[Berker Peksağ]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Parasa, Srinivas Vamsi
<srinivas.vamsi.parasa at intel.com> wrote:
> Attached is the computed goto patch (along with instructions to run) for Python 2.7.10 (based on the patch submitted by Jeffrey Yasskin  at http://bugs.python.org/issue4753). We built and tested this patch for Python 2.7.10 on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, Intel Xeon – Haswell EP CPU with 18 cores, hyper-threading off, turbo off).

Hi Vamsi,

Thank you for your work and your detailed email.

I'm -1 on the idea because:

* Performance improvements are not bug fixes
* The patch doesn't make the migration process from Python 2 to Python 3 easier
* In long term, it would be nice to work on making Python 3 better:
See http://bugs.python.org/issue11549 for an example task.

--Berker