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

Dan Sugalski dan@sidhe.org
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:44:57 -0500

At 5:55 PM -0500 1/30/03, Terry Reedy wrote:

"Graham Guttocks" <grahamguttocks@yahoo.co.nz> wrote in message news:20030130211504.810.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com...

Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote: > > It's actually not all that tough

Oh? Guido seems to disagree with you. No contradiction or disagreement. It is not all that tough to do something of limited benefit, such as pre-interpreting Python byte codes into a series of function calls in some compilable-to-machine-code language. It is must harder to do something much more useful, which is all Guido would be interested in.

You underestimate the benefit in the first case, and the second case isn't really much more difficult. I expect one of the several reasons that nobody's pursued this is that the current interpreter is deemed fast enough, which is a perfectly good reason to not bother going further.

                                     Dan

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