Concerns about performance w/Python, Pysco on Pentiums

[Michael Hudson]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > 
> > You might also try a list of functions rather than a dict.  I think
> > psyco knows more about lists than dicts.  But ICBW.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  My lateral-thinking cap must have been off.  Although
> dicts are fast in Python in general, in this case the items in the
> list are tightly constrained (opcodes, from 0 to 255) and a list 
> is quite feasible.  I'll give it a shot - thanks! :)

In which case, I'd expect lists to be faster than dicts w/o psyco too,
'cause of the special casing for list[int] in ceval.c.

Cheers,
M.

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