[Python-Dev] Alternative Python VM (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Feb 16 23:43:24 CET 2007

On 2/14/07, Sokolov Yura <falcon at intercable.ru> wrote:

It could be interesting.

""" - pyvm is * 2 times * faster than Python 2.4. In the source code there is a collection of benchmarks which includes 65 python scripts collected from the internet. At average if Python 2.4 needs 24 hours to do some job, pyvm can do it in 12 hours. - pyvm is a virtual machine that can run Python 2.3/2.4 bytecode. There is a compiler written in python (the 'pyc' program) which is executed by the vm to compile source code to bytecode. It is very easy to do advanced optimizations in python and the compiler produces bytecode of high quality (speed and size). """ http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm/

I love how the first line says this project "most of the times produce the expected output". =)

Until this thing can run parrotbench and the entire regression test suite for Python source modules I will consider the speed claims suspect.

-Brett

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