Ralph Corderoy <ralph-pythonb...@inputplus.co.uk> added the comment:
Regarding compressing the opcode table to make better use of cache; what if the most frequently occurring opcodes where placed together, e.g. the opcodes were ordered by frequency, most frequent first. Just based on a one-off static analysis of a body of code. A level one cache line can be, what, 64 bytes == 16 32-bit pointers. ---------- nosy: +ralph.corderoy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4753> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com