The op_code() function in op_lib_t does look up an op_info_table entry by the op's full_name. To accomplish this, the current implementation builds via ops2c.pl basically a static hash table, which get's appended to core_ops.c and core_ops_prederef.c.
My proposal is: build a hash table at runtime on the first invocation of op_code() (which parrot doesn't do). This would currently: - save ~ 2*1500 lines of genderated source code - save - according to nm 2*13 KB per static executable - save 50 % lookup time because of fully hashing the opcodes full_name - have no influence on parrot itself, because parrot doesn't use this function. testing op_code for 889 ops 10000 times: current: real 0m8.674s mine: real 0m3.827s The current only users of op_code() are the debugger (PDB_eval), pxs.c and imcc. If no one has objections I'll send a patch. leo
