[Python-Dev] Python 3 optimizations, continued, continued again...

[Benjamin Peterson]

2012/1/27 stefan brunthaler <s.brunthaler at uci.edu>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:36, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
>> 2011/11/8 stefan brunthaler <s.brunthaler at uci.edu>:
>>> How does that sound?
>>
>> I think I can hear real patches and benchmarks most clearly.
>>
> I spent the better part of my -20% time on implementing the work as
> "suggested". Please find the benchmarks attached to this email, I just
> did them on my system (i7-920, Linux 3.0.0-15, GCC 4.6.1). I branched
> off the regular 3.3a0 default tip changeset 73977 shortly after your
> email. I do not have an official patch yet, but am going to create one
> if wanted. Changes to the existing interpreter are minimal, the
> biggest chunk is a new interpreter dispatch loop.
>
> Merging dispatch loops eliminates some of my optimizations, but my
> inline caching technique enables inlining some functionality, which
> results in visible speedups. The code is normalized to the
> non-threaded-code version of the CPython interpreter (named
> "vanilla"), so that I can reference it to my preceding results. I
> anticipate *no* compatibility issues and the interpreter requires less
> than 100 KiB of extra memory at run-time. Since my interpreter is
> using 215 of a maximum of 255 instructions, there is room for adding
> additional derivatives, e.g., for popular Python libraries, too.
>
>
> Let me know what python-dev thinks of this and have a nice weekend,

Cool. It'd be nice to see a patch.



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Regards,
Benjamin