Re: interpreter performance

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:13:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd also like to teach PI (or whatever it becomes) to produce joined 
> opcodes. Ilya did some profiling of perl 5 code, and there were a bunch of 
> common op pairs. Joining them together (thus saving both dispatch time 
> *and* op setup/teardown) would get us a small win, but then saving 5 cycles 
> an op on ops that take 40 cycles is nothing to sneeze at...

Absolutely.  I'd expect this to happen for free if we can nail down a
good architecture for the perl->C->native code translator.

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