[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:15:46 -0500

At 12:00 PM +0100 2/3/03, Christian Tismer wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: >... > >>If you want to bet, I'll put up $10 and a round of beer (or other >>beverage of your choice) at OSCON 2004 for all the python labs & >>zope folks that says parrot beats the current python interpreter >>when running all the python benchmark suite programs (that don't >>depend on extensions written in C, since we're shooting for pure >>engine performance) from bytecode. Game? > >Do you mean the current Python interpreter of 2004? >That could be quite a different beast...

While it could be, that's unlikely. Still, that'd be part of the ground rules we'd work out if someone takes me up on the challenge.

I'm in. Given how low you set your stakes, I don't think you're very confident, so I'd like to call your bluff. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)