On 01/02/2016 16:54, Yury Selivanov wrote:
On 2016-01-29 11:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Yury Selivanov wrote:
Hi,
tl;dr The summary is that I have a patch that improves CPython
performance up to 5-10% on macro benchmarks. Benchmarks results on
Macbook Pro/Mac OS X, desktop CPU/Linux, server CPU/Linux are available
at [1]. There are no slowdowns that I could reproduce consistently.
Have you looked at Cesare Di Mauro's wpython? As far as I know, it's now
unmaintained, and the project repo on Google Code appears to be dead (I
get a 404), but I understand that it was significantly faster than
CPython back in the 2.6 days.
https://wpython.googlecode.com/files/Beyond%20Bytecode%20-%20A%20Wordcode-based%20Python.pdf
Thanks for bringing this up!
IIRC wpython was about using "fat" bytecodes, i.e. using 64bits per
bytecode instead of 8. That allows to minimize the number of bytecodes,
thus having some performance increase. TBH, I don't think it was
"significantly faster".
From https://code.google.com/archive/p/wpython/
<quote>
WPython is a re-implementation of (some parts of) Python, which drops
support for bytecode in favour of a wordcode-based model (where a is
word is 16 bits wide).
It also implements an hybrid stack-register virtual machine, and adds a
lot of other optimizations.
</quote>
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what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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