Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Sep 1 00:29:48 CEST 2009

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Gregory P. Smith <greg <at> krypto.org> writes:
> 
> I was just wondering if a bytecode for a superinstruction of the common 
sequence:
> 6 POP_TOP
> 7 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
> 10 RETURN_VALUE
> might be worth it.

I think superinstructions in general would be a good thing to experiment, as
wpython showed. Direct addressing (via a pseudo register file combining locals
and constants) would eliminate many bookkeeping-related opcodes in common 
bytecode.

Regards

Antoine.

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