pointless musings on performance

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Tue Nov 24 17:08:19 EST 2009


Tim Wintle <tim.wintle <at> teamrubber.com> writes:
> Out of interest - has anyone else spotted that the call to
> PyObject_IsTrue in the XXX_JUMP_IF_YYYY blocks performs two unnecessary
> pointer comparisons?

I doubt two pointer comparisons will make much of a difference.

> Would it be worth in-lining the remaining part of PyObject_IsTrue in
> ceval?

Inlining by hand is prone to error and maintainability problems.







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