On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > The patch makes use of a GCC feature where labels can be used as values: > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html . I didn't know > about the feature and got confused by the unary && operator.
Right. SpiderMonkey (Mozilla's JavaScript interpreter) does this, and it was good for a similar win on platforms that use GCC. (It took me a while to figure out why it was so much faster, so I think this patch would be better with a few very specific comments!) SpiderMonkey calls this optimization "threaded code" too, but this isn't the standard meaning of that term. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code -j _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
