I have spent some time playing with cache effects in our little DSL for instruction definitions.
I found that cache effects are typed, beyond the integer size -- there are cache entries of type PyObject *.
Now, right now it appears that we might get away with saying "it's an object iff the length is 8", because it appears read_u64() (and write_u64()) are not used. But that appears not very future-proof.
I have spent some time playing with cache effects in our little DSL for instruction definitions.
I found that cache effects are typed, beyond the integer size -- there are cache entries of type
PyObject *.Now, right now it appears that we might get away with saying "it's an object iff the length is 8", because it appears
read_u64()(andwrite_u64()) are not used. But that appears not very future-proof.Thoughts? This is not yet urgent.
@markshannon