Bytecode optimisation

Phil Hunt philh at vision25.demon.co.uk
Thu May 20 11:44:08 EDT 1999


In article <7hue8m$gsh$1 at cronkite.cc.uga.edu>
           graham at sloth.math.uga.edu "Graham Matthews" writes:
> Tim Peters (tim_one at email.msn.com) wrote:
> : No comment intended on the worth of the project or the code (haven't had
> : time to study it) -- just noting that dramatic speedups almost never come
> : from optimizers, but from writing the most appropriate code.
> 
> This depends on what language you are using Tim. For example if you
> are using Self the compiler optimisations on method calls drastically 
> speed up code.

Has anyone looked into whether Python could be speeded up by using 
similar techniques to those Self uses?

-- 
Phil Hunt....philh at vision25.demon.co.uk





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