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Author pitrou
Recipients pitrou
Date 2008-12-21.22:58:01
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This patch optimizes the bytecode for conditional branches.
For example, the list comprehension "[x for x in l if not x]" produced
the following bytecode:

  1           0 BUILD_LIST               0 
              3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0) 
        >>    6 FOR_ITER                23 (to 32) 
              9 STORE_FAST               1 (x) 
             12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x) 
             15 JUMP_IF_TRUE            10 (to 28) 
             18 POP_TOP              
             19 LOAD_FAST                1 (x) 
             22 LIST_APPEND              2 
             25 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6 
        >>   28 POP_TOP              
             29 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6 
        >>   32 RETURN_VALUE         

but after the patch it produces the following bytecode:

  1           0 BUILD_LIST               0 
              3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0) 
        >>    6 FOR_ITER                18 (to 27) 
              9 STORE_FAST               1 (x) 
             12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x) 
             15 POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE         6 
             18 LOAD_FAST                1 (x) 
             21 LIST_APPEND              2 
             24 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6 
        >>   27 RETURN_VALUE         

Notice that not only the code is shorter, but the conditional jump
(POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE) jumps right to the start of the loop instead of going
through the JUMP_ABSOLUTE at the end. "continue" statements are helped
similarly.

Furthermore, the old jump opcodes (JUMP_IF_FALSE, JUMP_IF_TRUE) could
profitably be replaced by two new opcodes:
- one which jumps if true and pops otherwise
- one which jumps if false and pops otherwise
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Date User Action Args
2008-12-21 22:58:06pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou
2008-12-21 22:58:05pitrousetmessageid: <1229900285.73.0.345956521758.issue4715@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-21 22:58:05pitroulinkissue4715 messages
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