My friend Geoff Collyer just read the PyPy proposal. He said this: ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: geoff@collyer.net Delivery-Date: Thu Nov 6 02:26:25 2003 Message-ID: <259f0c7ae0856ce884c9062e0e2c10c3@collyer.net> To: lac@strakt.com Subject: Re: PyPy From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:26:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200311060104.hA614icL028140@ratthing-b246.strakt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on theraft.strakt.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: It appears that compiler theory has advanced quite a bit while I wasn't looking. How much of what you propose has already been implemented at least once? How much of the rest (unimplemented) is covered by existing compiler theory? ------- End of Forwarded Message I don't know the precise answer, so I post it here .... Laura