On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:27:32 -0500
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:37:57 -0500
> > Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> >
> >> 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
> >> > Also, I would point out that the reference counting behaviour is an
> >> > important feature of
2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:37:57 -0500
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>
>> 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
>> > Also, I would point out that the reference counting behaviour is an
>> > important feature of *C*Python (to the point that we have test cases
>> > checking against refe
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:37:57 -0500
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
> > Also, I would point out that the reference counting behaviour is an
> > important feature of *C*Python (to the point that we have test cases
> > checking against reference cycles), so we can't break it n
2012/11/18 Antoine Pitrou :
> Also, I would point out that the reference counting behaviour is an
> important feature of *C*Python (to the point that we have test cases
> checking against reference cycles), so we can't break it nilly-willy.
The tests about reference cycles are just tests that garb
On 17.11.12 03:13, Victor Stinner wrote:
The major drawback of the register approach (at least of my
implementation) is that it changes the lifetime of objects. Newly
created objects are only "destroyed" at the exit of the function,
whereas the stack-based VM destroys "immediatly" objects (thanks
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:17:40 +0100
Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Victor,
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Victor Stinner
> wrote:
> > The major drawback of the register approach (at least of my implementation)
> > is that it changes the lifetime of objects. Newly created objects are only
> > "destr
Interesting work indeed.
From profiling CPython it has long been clear to me that enormous gains can be
made by making instruction dispatching faster. A huge amount of time is spent
in the evaluation loop. I have also been making small inroads to offline
bytecode optimization. Identifying com
Hi Victor,
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
> The major drawback of the register approach (at least of my implementation)
> is that it changes the lifetime of objects. Newly created objects are only
> "destroyed" at the exit of the function, whereas the stack-based VM destro
