[Python-Dev] tuning up...

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Mon, 24 Feb 2003 06:29:51 -0800


Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> I'm still somewhat intrigued by the difference between the systems - IIRC
> the C3 CPU has only 64kB of cache, so may be some of the gains are related
> to better cache locality (at least for pystone) which is less obvious on
> CPUs with more cache.

I did some reorganization of the eval loop that gained a few percent on
pystone.

  Neil