[Python-Dev] Wordcode v2

[Cesare Di Mauro]

2016-02-17 12:04 GMT+01:00 Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org>:

> Demur Rumed <gunkmute <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I've personally benchmarked this fork with positive results.
>
> I'm skeptical of claims like this. What did you benchmark exactly, and with
> which results?
> I don't think changing the opcode encoding per se will bring any large
> benefit...
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.


With WPython I've introduced several optimizations which improved a lot the
execution speed (+25% with PyStone, at the time, compared to CPython 2.6),
but most of the benefits came from the new opcode format.

Regards,
Cesare
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