Python CPU
geremy condra
debatem1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 12:36:46 EDT 2011
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>> A tagged machine might make Python faster. You could have
>> unboxed ints and floats, yet still allow values of other types,
>> with the hardware tagging helping with dispatch. But it probably
>> wouldn't help all that much. It didn't in the LISP machines.
>> What might help more is having bytecodes that operate on
> arrays of unboxed types -- numpy acceleration in hardware.
I'd be interested in seeing the performance impact of this, although I
wonder if it'd be feasible.
Geremy Condra
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