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authorJeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>2009-02-28 19:03:21 (GMT)
committerJeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>2009-02-28 19:03:21 (GMT)
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Backport r69961 to trunk, replacing JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE} with
POP_JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE} and JUMP_IF_{TRUE,FALSE}_OR_POP. This avoids executing a POP_TOP on each conditional and sometimes allows the peephole optimizer to skip a JUMP_ABSOLUTE entirely. It speeds up list comprehensions significantly.
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@@ -664,16 +664,26 @@ the more significant byte last.
Increments bytecode counter by *delta*.
-.. opcode:: JUMP_IF_TRUE (delta)
+.. opcode:: POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE (target)
- If TOS is true, increment the bytecode counter by *delta*. TOS is left on the
- stack.
+ If TOS is true, sets the bytecode counter to *target*. TOS is popped.
-.. opcode:: JUMP_IF_FALSE (delta)
+.. opcode:: POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE (target)
- If TOS is false, increment the bytecode counter by *delta*. TOS is not
- changed.
+ If TOS is false, sets the bytecode counter to *target*. TOS is popped.
+
+
+.. opcode:: JUMP_IF_TRUE_OR_POP (target)
+
+ If TOS is true, sets the bytecode counter to *target* and leaves TOS
+ on the stack. Otherwise (TOS is false), TOS is popped.
+
+
+.. opcode:: JUMP_IF_FALSE_OR_POP (target)
+
+ If TOS is false, sets the bytecode counter to *target* and leaves
+ TOS on the stack. Otherwise (TOS is true), TOS is popped.
.. opcode:: JUMP_ABSOLUTE (target)