From: Petru P. <pe...@pa...> - 2003-09-05 22:39:38
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +0100, Armin Rigo wrote: > The 'ivm' virtual machine is now about twice as fast as yesterday :-) Great! > I finished the tool that searches for common instruction sequences and > re-emits the virtual machine core with new extra combined instructions. The > speed benefits are quite interesting. This is based on the instruction flow you obtained from running a test suite, yes? Would it make any difference if the combined instructions would be calculated for a specific application, or are the common sequences really that common across all Python code? Petru |