t are really just pointing to "read-only" data. This overhead would
go away if assignments from an IS_CONST operand to a target didn't
perform copies.
Regards,
Kannan
-Original Message-
From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:46 PM
To: K
ciated with building/tearing down such globals
that are really just pointing to "read-only" data. This overhead would
go away if assignments from an IS_CONST operand to a target didn't
perform copies.
Regards,
Kannan
-Original Message-
From: Andi Gutmans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC
Op arrays are read-only. This is a design goal and is especially
important for byte code caches where several processes are looking at
the same op array. Therefore setting IS_CONST to is_ref=1/refcount=2 we
are ensuring that they will not be changed.
The copy happens only the first time and afterwa
