[Python-Dev] Re: new bytecode results

[Damien Morton]

"Dan Sugalski" <dan@sidhe.org>
> At 1:54 PM -0500 2/27/03, Damien Morton wrote:
> >In general, it would seem that adding opcodes in bulk, even if many
opcodes
> >switch to the same labels, results in a minor performance loss.
>
> While I'm somewhat loathe to help you guys go faster (that whole pie
> thing) you might want to take a look at commonly used pairs of
> opcodes and reordering the code in the switch body so pairs are
> adjacent and more likely to be in cache.

I caught the whole pie conversation, but I missed how you were going to test
Parrot against Python.

How exactly will this competion be measured?