The way to a faster python [was Python IS slow !]

[Markus Kohler]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> Markus Kohler wrote:
> > 1. One can use a dispatch table instead of a case statement by using
> > an extension of gnu C. For squeak (www.squeak.org) that gave me a speedup
> > of almost a factor of 2 in message sending speed on a HP-UX machine.
> > The statement used is a goto(address). Some other C compilers might be
> > able to do that as well, and for those you don't have it the old code
> > should still be there.
> 
> http://starship.skyport.net/crew/vlad/archive/threaded_code/
> 

I know. 

But it's not in the main release yet. Didn't  it improve
performance ?

Also when I read USE_INDIRECT_THREADED_CODE it seems to me  it uses
indirect threading. 
Direct threaded code
could be still faster on most machines. Of course the implementation
effort is probably
bigger. 


Markus

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