On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:51:10 +0100 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:48:05 -0800 > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > > Food for thought: maybe we should have variable-encoding lengths for all > > opcodes, rather than the current cumbersome scheme? > > Well, it's not that cumbersome... If you look at CPU encodings, they > also tend to have different opcodes for different immediate lengths. > > In your case, I'd say it mostly leads to a bit of code duplication. But > the opcode space is far from exhausted right now :) Oops... Make that "in our case", of course. cheers Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
