On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Anto, > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What can we conclude? That "compiling the loops" is uneffective and we only >> care about compiling single functions? :-( > > Or, conversely, that compiling single functions is ineffective and we > only care about compiling the loops? No. > > I expect that on a large and messy program like translate.py, after a > while, either approach should be fine. Still, there are cases where > one or the other approach is better. If you want an obvious example > where compiling loops is better, write a function that runs a loop a > large number of times, but is itself called only a few times. > > > A bientôt, > > Armin. >
Or hakan's video editing code ;-) What's although worth considering is how to get stuff optimized even if we don't have loops (but I guess carl has already started) _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
