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. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
