[Python-Dev] python compiler (original) (raw)

Reid Kleckner rnk at mit.edu
Mon Apr 5 17:25:36 CEST 2010

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

Python itself is a highly dynamic language and not amenable to direct compilation. Instead modern just-in-time compiler technology is seen as the way to improve Python performance. Projects that are doing this are PyPy and Unladen Swallow. A static subset of Python can be statically compiled, projects that do that include RPython (part of PyPy) and ShedSkin. These are not really Python though, just Python like languages that happen to be valid subsets of Python.

I agree. However, if you're doing it as a fun final project and don't care about performance and don't mind generating slow code, then go for it. You'd also want to cut a bunch of corners like exec and eval.

Reid

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