2016-04-24 23:16 GMT+02:00 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>:
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I proposed to not try to optimize ceval.c to fetch (oparg, opval) in a
>> single 16-bit operation. It should be easy to implement it later, but
>> I prefer to focus on changing the format of the bytecode.
>
> Improving instruction decoding was the whole point and it was what kicked-off 
> the work on the patch.  It is also where most of the performance improvement 
> comes from and isn't the difficult part of the patch. The persnickety parts 
> of the patch lay elsewhere, so there is really nothing to be gained gutting 
> out our actual objective.
>
> The OPs original patch had already gotten this part done and it ran fine for 
> me.

Oh wait, my phrasing is unclear. I do want optimize the (opcode,
oparg) fetch, I just suggested to split the patch in two parts, and
first review carefully the first part.

Victor
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