[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places (original) (raw)

Stelios Xanthakis sxanth at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Dec 9 00:25:20 CET 2004

The only thing that will fix the PR issue is to have a Python compiler distributed as part of the language. It doesn't matter if it doesn't support the full generality of Python, or even if it doesn't speed many operations up much. The only real requirements are that it can be used to produce "native" executables

I don't hink it's a matter of native executables. Hopefully all the real algorithms are already in native executables as builtins (dictionary lookup, etc).

And generally, one can wrap all the tough code in C and take advantage of the flexibility of python at a higher level. pygame is the best example of this! Basic stuff from complexity theory: the real complex parts are few and isolated in C. For the other we can take advantage of a higher level dynamic language.

Stelios

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