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

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Fri Dec 10 18:07:50 CET 2004

Hi Skip,

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:49:30AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> The other thing we can do is finish the portable backend for psyco >> and make it a standard module. Then Python won't be slow, it will be >> compiled, and py2exe will be able to make a single-file executable. Armin> You probably mean that Psyco can dynamically compile Python Armin> bytecodes even if they have been hidden into an .exe file by Armin> py2exe. I didn't read it that way. My impression was that py2exe be modified to include and enable psyco if it's available when building an .exe. You would, in theory, get a single file distribution as well as dynamic compilation.

Yes, I agree with this. What I meant is that when I first read the original paragraph (the 1st one quoted above), I thought it meant that in the future py2exe and Psyco could be combined in such a way that we'd essentially have a compiler from Python producing a "classical" compiled binary. A lot of people could read it that way.

The question is if we should advertise a Psyco+py2exe combination using a similar wording, such that it superficially sounds like we are doing a "classical" compilation from .py to .exe, whereas it actually means that we are hiding Psyco with the bytecodes in a .exe. After all, from a user's (or journalist's) point of view the result is similar, performancewise.

Whether Psyco is reliable enough for this is yet another issue... I'd classify Psyco as "mostly reliable" only...

A bientot,

Armin.

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