Month: July 2016
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Stack vs Register bytecodes for Python
There seems to be a consensus that register bytecodes are superior to stack bytecodes. I don’t quite know how to cite “common knowledge”, but doing a google search for “Python register VM” or “stack vs register vm” supports the fact that many people believe this. There was a comment on this blog to this effect as well.…
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Why is Python slow
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed than the interpreter tier but lower startup overhead than the LLVM tier. There’s been some discussion over on Hacker News, and the discussion…
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