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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:36:46 -0700
Subject: Re: Python CPU
From: geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>
>> =A0 =A0A tagged machine might make Python faster. =A0You could have
>> unboxed ints and floats, yet still allow values of other types,
>> with the hardware tagging helping with dispatch. =A0 But it probably
>> wouldn't help all that much. =A0It 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