Why doesn't JUMP_IF_FALSE do POP_TOP ?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 12 Jan 2003 20:08:05 GMT, rumours say that bokr at oz.net (Bengt
Richter) might have written:

>It seems like usually POP_TOP is the next byte code on either branch.
>Or is there a difficult case where the value is needed on the stack?
>It seems like the 99% case is getting the overhead (and also making the
>polling interval counter count unnecessary codes).
>
>Regards,
>Bengt Richter

If I may,

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=bpr6musc14m74uqss78iehtl72h9qrmu7o%404ax.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Djump_if_false_pop%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den

At least on SGI Irix with MIPS processors, the savings weren't that
great.  But if you insist, I can find the patches...
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