On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > 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.
I'd be interested in seeing the performance impact of this, although I wonder if it'd be feasible. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
