> How many times did you regenerate this code until you got it right? Well, honestly, I changed the code generator to "pack" the new optimized instruction derivatives densly into the available opcodes, so that I can make optimal use of what's there. Thus I only generated the code twice for this patch.
> And how do you know that you really got it so right that it was the last time > ever > that you needed your generator for it? I am positive that I am going to need my code generator in the future, as I have several ideas to increase performance even more. As I have mentioned before, my quickening based inline caching technique is very simple, and if it would crash, chances are that any of the inline-cache miss guards don't capture all scenarios, i.e., are non-exhaustive. The regression-tests run, so do the official benchmarks plus the computer language benchmarks game. In addition, this has been my line of research since 2009, so I have extensive experience with it, too. > What if the C structure of any of those "several types" ever changes? Since I optimize interpreter instructions, any change that affects their implementation requires changing of the optimized instructions, too. Having the code generator ready for such things would certainly be a good idea (probably also for generating the default interpreter dispatch loop), since you could also add your own "profile" for your application/domain to re-use the remaining 30+ instruction opcodes. The direct answer is that I would need to re-generate the driver file, which is basically a gdb-dump plus an Emacs macro (please note that I did not need to do that since working with ~ 3.0b1) I will add a list of the types I use for specializing to patch section on the "additional resources" page of my homepage (including a fixed patch of what Georg brought to my attention.) --stefan _______________________________________________ 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
