[Types-sig] Global analysis - anything available?

Skip Montanaro skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:45:08 -0600


Guido wrote:

> Jim Hugunin did global analysis on the pystone.py module -- 250 lines
> containing 14 functions and one class with two methods.  (He may actually
> have left out the class, but I'm pretty sure he did everything else.)  He
> got a 1000x speedup, which I think should be a pretty good motivator for
> those interested in (OPT).

Did anything concrete fall out of this exercise?  Did Jim write code or do
it manually?

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