> That's interesting. It's dumber than I thought. All temporaries
> on the stack are "boxed" as PyObjects. That's simple and portable,
> but slow.
Not only that - Python does not ever have the concept of unboxed
values, except for local variables in the C implementations of
arithmetic operat
Terry Reedy wrote:
Various people have asked on c.l.p about documentation of CPython's
virtual machine internals. The usual answers have been to see the dis
module doc for bytecodes and 'read the code' for more. Jakob Sievers
did so and posted his notes, with additions from Martin v. Löwis, a
Various people have asked on c.l.p about documentation of CPython's
virtual machine internals. The usual answers have been to see the dis
module doc for bytecodes and 'read the code' for more. Jakob Sievers
did so and posted his notes, with additions from Martin v. Löwis, as
http://wiki.pyth
