[pypy-dev] unroll if

[Alex Gaynor]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 08/02/2011 11:41 AM, Armin Rigo wrote:
>
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Carl Friedrich Bolz<cfbolz at gmx.de>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have much time for things, about to leave on vacation. Just so
>>> that it doesn't get lost: on the unrolling-if branch, if you use the
>>> decorator, the JIT should *not* look inside the function if the
>>> condition if false. even if the function doesn't contain a loop. so
>>> maybe the decorators should be renamed to unroll_iff (too
>>> mathematical?) or unroll_exactly_if.
>>>
>>
>> Then it has nothing to do with unrolling: it should be renamed to
>> something like "look_inside_if".  It just happens to mean, as a
>> side-effect, "if the condition is true, then look inside even in case
>> there is a loop, thus unrolling it".
>>
>
> look_inside_iff then? :-)
>
> Carl Friedrich
>
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Any of the above are fine with me :), I'll rename it when I next work on it.

Alex

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