On 17 Jul 2012, at 23:04, [email protected] wrote:
>> [snip...]
>
>> I would like to use a JIT to generate specialized functions for a
>> combinaison of arguments types.
>
> I think history has moved past specializing JITs. Tracing JITs are the
> status quo; they provide specialization as a si
That's not, strictly speaking, true. Mozilla added a method-JIT (Jaegermonkey)
and then added another one (IonMonkey) because their tracing JIT (Tracemonkey)
was bad. There's no fundamental reason that tracing has to only cover loops,
indeed PyPy's tracing has been generalized to compile individua
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Victor Stinner
wrote:
>> It's the JIT compiler of Unladen Swallow that "failed"; in
>> my understanding because LLVM is crap (i.e. it is slow, memory-consuming,
>> and buggy) - as a low-level virtual machine; it may be ok as a compiler
>> backend (but I still think
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
> On 17 Jul 2012, at 23:04, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >> [snip...]
> >
> >> I would like to use a JIT to generate specialized functions for a
> >> combinaison of arguments types.
> >
> > I think history has moved past specializing JITs. T
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:49:03 +0200 (CEST)
brett.cannon wrote:
> diff --git a/Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
> b/Lib/test/test_importlib/__init__.py
> rename from Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
> rename to Lib/test/test_importlib/__init__.py
> --- a/Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
> +++ b/Lib/test/
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:12:26 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:49:03 +0200 (CEST)
> brett.cannon wrote:
> > diff --git a/Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
> > b/Lib/test/test_importlib/__init__.py
> > rename from Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
> > rename to Lib/test/test_importl
+1
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:12:26 +0200, Antoine Pitrou
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:49:03 +0200 (CEST)
>> brett.cannon wrote:
>> > diff --git a/Lib/importlib/test/__init__.py
>> > b/Lib/test/test_importlib/__init__.py
>> > rename
On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:30 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> - Eugene Toder's patch to add an AST optimisation step to the compiler
> chain (http://bugs.python.org/issue11549) (I've asked Eugene about
> this patch more recently and his current thought is that subsequent
> improvements to the peephole optim
