No built-in swap function?
David Fraser
davidf at sjsoft.com
Wed Apr 21 06:37:24 EDT 2004
Simon Wittber wrote:
>>That's 6 LOAD_FAST, and 3 STORE_FAST operations, plus XOR'ing.
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> NB. I do not fully understand how psyco works.
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> The point I was trying to make, is that I expected a psyco optimised xor
> swap to optimise down to ~3 CPU instructions, much like my old C
> compiler once did.
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> AFAIK, psyco generates machine code, not python byte code?
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> Sw.
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Yes, psyco generates machine code. But why not ask this on the psyco
mailing list? Armin is very responsive
David
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