Building CPython

[Gregory Ewing]

BartC wrote:
> It appears to be those "<=" and "+" operations in the code above where 
> much of the time is spent. When I trace out the execution paths a bit 
> more, I'll have a better picture of how many lines of C code are 
> involved in each iteration.

The path from decoding a bytecode to the C code that
implements it can be rather convoluted, but there are
reasons for each of the complications -- mainly to
do with supporting the ability to override operators
with C and/or Python code.

If you removed those abilities, the implemention
would be simpler, and possibly faster. But then the
language wouldn't be Python any more.

-- 
Greg