The EXTENDED_ARG is included in the multibyte ops, I treat it just like any
other operator.  Here's a snippet of my hacked-dis.dis output, which made
it clear to me that I could just count them as an "operator with word
operand."

Line 3000: x = x if x or not x and x is None else x
0001dc83 7c 00 00         LOAD_FAST           x
0001dc86 91 01 00         EXTENDED_ARG        1
0001dc89 70 9f dc         JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP L1dc9f
0001dc8c 7c 00 00         LOAD_FAST           x
0001dc8f 0c               UNARY_NOT
0001dc90 91 01 00         EXTENDED_ARG        1
0001dc93 6f 9f dc         JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POPL1dc9f
0001dc96 7c 00 00         LOAD_FAST           x
0001dc99 74 01 00         LOAD_GLOBAL         None
0001dc9c 6b 08 00         COMPARE_OP          'is'
                  L1dc9f:
0001dc9f 91 01 00         EXTENDED_ARG        1
0001dca2 72 ab dc         POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE   L1dcab
0001dca5 7c 00 00         LOAD_FAST           x
0001dca8 6e 03 00         JUMP_FORWARD        L1dcae (+3)
                  L1dcab:
0001dcab 7c 00 00         LOAD_FAST           x
                  L1dcae:
0001dcae 7d 00 00         STORE_FAST          x


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-04-13 23:02 GMT+02:00 Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlg...@gmail.com>:
> > Percentage of 1-byte args    = 96.80%
>
> Yeah, I expected such high ratio. Good news that you confirm it.
>
>
> > Non-argument ops             =    53,719
> > One-byte args                =   368,787
> > Multi-byte args              =    12,191
>
> Again, only a very few arguments take multiple bytes. Good, the
> bytecode will be smaller.
>
> IMHO it's more a nice side effect than a real goal. The runtime
> performance matters more than the size of the bytecode, it's not like
> a bytecode take 4 MB. It's probably closer to 1 KB and so can probably
> benefit of the fatest CPU caches.
>
>
> > Just for the record, here's my arithmetic:
> > byteCodeSize     = 1*nonArgumentOps + 3*oneByteArgs + 3*multiByteArgs
> > wordCodeSize     = 2*nonArgumentOps + 2*oneByteArgs + 4*multiByteArgs
>
> If multiByteArgs means any size > 1 byte, the wordCodeSize formula is
> wrong:
>
> - no parameter: 2 bytes
> - 8-bit parameter: 2 bytes
> - 16-bit parameter: 4 bytes
> - 24-bit parameter: 6 bytes
> - 32-bit parameter: 8 bytes
>
> But you wrote that you didn't see EXTEND_ARG, so I guess that
> multibyte means 16-bit in your case, and so your formula is correct.
>
> Hopefully, I don't expect 32-bit parameters in the wild, only 24-bit
> parameter for function with annotation.
>
>
> > (It is interesting to note that I have never encountered an EXTENDED_ARG
> operator in the wild, only in my own synthetic examples.)
>
> As I wrote, EXTENDED_ARG can be seen when MAKE_FUNCTION is used with
> annotations.
>
> Victor
>
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