Where's Psyco now?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:37:38 -0800, Roger wrote:

> If that's the case where's the point of diminishing returns on using
> psyco?  Why would it not be useful in a general setting?

There is some overhead involved with the runtime analysis and compiling.  
Functions that are only called once usually don't benefit from psyco, 
even worse they can be slower because of the unnecessary overhead.  And 
not all code can be accelerated.  Best candidates are functions that are 
somewhat C-like, i.e. doing lots of operations on simple number types.  
Things that can be translated directly to machine code.  And for some 
very generic functions that are called with lots of different types, the 
memory consumption is high because of all the specialized code that will 
be compiled.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch