Vitja Makarov, 23.05.2011 21:33:
2011/5/23 Stefan Behnel:
However, once we really know which values change between yield calls, i.e.
which ones need to be stored away, it will actually be less expensive in
most cases. We currently pay the indirection penalty for each access, even
read access, whereas the C compiler can then keep important variables in
registers and only write them back once per yield.
I think that all not NULL variables should be saved/restored inside yield.
I can not really track changes only assignments.
I mean "assignments" when I write "changes". When a variable is being
assigned to, we should assume that its value changed. Users can be expected
to be smart enough to avoid unnecessary assignments in most cases, there's
no need to put work into optimising them away automatically.
for i in a:
yield i # j is NULL here
for j in b:
yield j # a, b, i ,j should be saved/restored
Right. However, in general, we can expect that most variables will have
been initialised on a yield.
We can still avoid storing away C typed variables that are not being used
later on, because they are not reference counted.
And if the user sets 'a' and 'i' to None between the loops, they won't need
to be saved on the second yield either. But that's an optimisation, not a
requirement.
Stefan
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