CPython VM internals - Wiki page
John Nagle
nagle at animats.com
Tue Jul 22 14:48:25 EDT 2008
Terry Reedy wrote:
> Various people have asked on c.l.p about documentation of CPython's
> virtual machine internals. The usual answers have been to see the dis
> module doc for bytecodes and 'read the code' for more. Jakob Sievers
> did so and posted his notes, with additions from Martin v. Löwis, as
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CPythonVmInternals
That's interesting. It's dumber than I thought. All temporaries
on the stack are "boxed" as PyObjects. That's simple and portable,
but slow.
John Nagle
More information about the Python-list
mailing list