> However, it looks like a switched interpreter. I just
> find this surprising because python seems to run pretty fast, and a switched
> interpreter is usually painfully slow.
This just proves how worthless a generalization that is.
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:47:18PM -0400, Jing Su wrote:
> Is there work to change python into a direct-threaded or even JIT'ed
> interpreter?
People have experimented with making the ceval loop use direct
threading. If I recall correctly, the resulting speedup was not
significant. I suspect th
Hello,
I know this is a n00b question, so I apologize ahead of time.
I've been taking a look at they python interpreter, trying to
understand how it works on the compiled byte-codes. Looking
through the sources of the 2.4.1 stable version, it looks like
Python/ceval.c is the module that does the
