I looked at the virtual machine bytecode of python programs:
def f(whatever):
text="Hallo"+whatever
return text
import dis
dis.dis(f)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 1 ('Hallo')
3 LOAD_FAST 0 (whatever)
6 BINARY_ADD
7 STORE_FAST 1 (text)
3 10 LOAD_FAST 1 (text)
13 RETURN_VALUE
and now I am curious: how long does one LOAD_FAST take? I am thinking
of something like back in the assembler-world, where there existed
tables like:
LDA -> 2 cycles
BNE -> 2 cycles, 3 on branch
of course, the "real time" is dependand on many factors, esp. the
speed of the processor.
But ... is there a relative scale somewhere?
Somehting like
LOAD_CONST 1 arbitraryUnit
LOAD_FAST 1.9 arbitraryUnits
RETURN_VALUE 8.0 arbitraryUnits
???
my Google queries did not reveal anything usefull so far. Any hints?
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