Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes: > - efficient array indexing: they give shift-and-index back to > Thumb mode, for a shift by 2, allowing to index arrays with > 4-byte elements in a single instruction (rather than requiring > a separate multipy-by-four). Again useful for JIT of array > access instructions, not applicable to Python - although it > would be nice if the C compiler knew how to emit that.
This could be used in PyTuple_GetItem and PyList_GetItem, no? (assuming Thumb has 4-byte pointers) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
