[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Python ceval.c,2.383,2.384

Sat Mar 20 16:57:48 EST 2004

Hello Raymond,
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 04:14:58PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > A 2% speed improvement with gcc on low-endian machines. My guess is
> that this new pattern for NEXTARG() is detected and optimized as a single
> (*short) loading.
>> It is possible to verify that guess by looking at the generated
> assembler.

I was too hasty in checking this in. That guess is actually false.
The speed-up was due (as usual) to random changes in performance when anything
around there changes, and cannot be reliably reproduced. I cancelled that
change altogether.
Armin