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Tue Nov 19 19:52:58 CET 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130366.html

So why is framing different?

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:48:05 -0800
> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Food for thought: maybe we should have variable-encoding lengths for all
> > opcodes, rather than the current cumbersome scheme?
>
> Well, it's not that cumbersome... If you look at CPU encodings, they
> also tend to have different opcodes for different immediate lengths.
>
> In your case, I'd say it mostly leads to a bit of code duplication. But
> the opcode space is far from exhausted right now :)
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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