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This new patch completes the bytecode modifications. For/while loops as
well as list comprehensions and generator expressions are a bit faster
now. Also, as a side effect I've introduced a speed improvement for "if"
statements and expressions...
Some micro-benchmarks (completing the ones already given above):
./python Tools/pybench/pybench.py -t IfThenElse
Before: 167ms per round
After: 136ms per round
./python -m timeit -s "y=range(100)" "sum(x for x in y)"
Before: 10000 loops, best of 3: 20.4 usec per loop
After: 100000 loops, best of 3: 17.9 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "y=range(100)" "sum(x for x in y if x)"
Before: 10000 loops, best of 3: 28.5 usec per loop
After: 10000 loops, best of 3: 23.3 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "y=range(100)" "sum(x for x in y if not x)"
Before: 100000 loops, best of 3: 16.4 usec per loop
After: 100000 loops, best of 3: 12.1 usec per loop
./python -m timeit -s "x,y,z=1,2,3" "x if y else z"
Before: 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.218 usec per loop
After: 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.159 usec per loop
A couple of tests seem to be failing in obscure ways in the test suite,
I'll try to examine them. Most of the test suite runs fine though.