[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2
Gregory P. Smith
greg at krypto.org
Thu May 28 19:13:29 CEST 2015
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:08 AM Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Wow. Such thread. :-)
>
> This patch could save companies like Dropbox a lot of money. We run a ton
> of Python code in large datacenters, and while we are slow in moving to
> Python 3, we're good at updating to the latest 2.7.
>
Dropbox should be compiling its own interpreter with whatever patches it
deems appropriate. The people it'll save resources for are companies not
enlightened enough to do that: thousands of them, generally small or
non-tech focused :)
The patch is forward and backward compatible.I'm strongly in favor.
>
+1 I'm in favor as well. I mostly wanted to make sure that people were
aware of profile-opt builds and that it was being compared. Sounds like
both benefit, even used together. Win win.
This is a 100% API compatible change. It just rearranges the interpreter
loop on compilers enlightened enough to allow it. I was always bummed that
it didn't make it into 2.7 itself. But given the world+dog is going to
have 2.7 around and kicking for a long time, lets save the world some CPU
cycles (read: carbon) for little effort. Very practical. Good for the
world.
People who need to save orders of magnitude more cycles shouldn't use an
interpreter. ie: PyPy. Or consider the costs of moving to a compiled
language.
-gps
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