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Thu Oct 23 09:31:48 CEST 2008 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/083090.html

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:08 AM, J. Sievers <cadr4u at gmail.com> wrote:
> In particular, direct threaded code leads to less horrible branch
> prediction than switch dispatch on many machines (exactly how
> pronounced this effect is depends heavily on the specific
> architecture).

To clarify: This is *NOT* actually a form of threading, is it?  It
"merely" breaks the giant dispatch table into a series of small ones,
while also grouping instructions into larger superinstructions?  OS
threads are not touched at any point?

-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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