interpreter vs. compiled

castironpi castironpi at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 18:08:17 EDT 2008


I'm curious about some of the details of the internals of the Python
interpreter:

I understand C from a hardware perspective.

x= y+ 1;

Move value from place y into a register
Add 1 to the value in the register
Move the addition's result to place x

The Python disassembly is baffling though.

>>> y= 3
>>> dis.dis('x=y+1')
          0 SETUP_LOOP      31037 (to 31040)
          3 STORE_SLICE+3
          4 <49>

What are SETUP_LOOP and STORE_SLICE?  What are these instructions?



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