[Python-Dev] Wordcode: new regular bytecode using 16-bit units

Cesare Di Mauro cesare.di.mauro at gmail.com
Sun May 15 09:25:27 EDT 2016


2016-04-13 23:23 GMT+02:00 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:

> Hopefully, I don't expect 32-bit parameters in the wild, only 24-bit
> parameter for function with annotation.
>

I never found 32-bit parameters, and not even 24-bit ones. I think that
their usage is as rare as all planets alignment. ;-)

That's why with in WPython I supported only 8, 16, and 32-bit parameters
(which are 6 bytes long).

Regards,
Cesare
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