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This patch by Antoine Pitrou optimizes the bytecode for conditional branches by
merging the following "POP_TOP" instruction into the conditional jump.  For
example, the list comprehension "[x for x in l if not x]" produced the
following bytecode:

  1           0 BUILD_LIST               0
              3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0)
        >>    6 FOR_ITER                23 (to 32)
              9 STORE_FAST               1 (x)
             12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
             15 JUMP_IF_TRUE            10 (to 28)
             18 POP_TOP
             19 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
             22 LIST_APPEND              2
             25 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
        >>   28 POP_TOP
             29 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
        >>   32 RETURN_VALUE

but after the patch it produces the following bytecode:

  1           0 BUILD_LIST               0
              3 LOAD_FAST                0 (.0)
        >>    6 FOR_ITER                18 (to 27)
              9 STORE_FAST               1 (x)
             12 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
             15 POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE         6
             18 LOAD_FAST                1 (x)
             21 LIST_APPEND              2
             24 JUMP_ABSOLUTE            6
        >>   27 RETURN_VALUE

Notice that not only the code is shorter, but the conditional jump
(POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE) jumps right to the start of the loop instead of going through
the JUMP_ABSOLUTE at the end. "continue" statements are helped
similarly.

Furthermore, the old jump opcodes (JUMP_IF_FALSE, JUMP_IF_TRUE) have been
replaced by two new opcodes:
- JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP, which jumps if true and pops otherwise
- JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP, which jumps if false and pops otherwise
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Jeffrey Yasskin 2009-02-25 02:25:04 +00:00
parent 0a68b01d64
commit 9de7ec7868
9 changed files with 195 additions and 129 deletions
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@ -87,8 +87,10 @@ typedef unsigned short mode_t;
Python 3.0a5: 3130 (lexical exception stacking, including POP_EXCEPT)
Python 3.1a0: 3140 (optimize list, set and dict comprehensions:
change LIST_APPEND and SET_ADD, add MAP_ADD)
Python 3.1a0: 3150 (optimize conditional branches:
introduce POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE and POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE)
*/
#define MAGIC (3140 | ((long)'\r'<<16) | ((long)'\n'<<24))
#define MAGIC (3150 | ((long)'\r'<<16) | ((long)'\n'<<24))
/* Magic word as global; note that _PyImport_Init() can change the
value of this global to accommodate for alterations of how the