"Yan Weng" <yweng@cs.uoregon.edu> wrote in message news:000b01c32f24$89ac89a0$b9acdf80@uo0b0aw1s4pcg0...
I am new to Python's core. I have a question here. Is the "byte code interpreter" part implemented as a separate part, say, a dll or so? If not, why?
The advantage to make interpreter a "plug-in" like module is: We can test different interpreter implementations or optimizers easily.
I doubt that the extra time taken to link in 'everything else' (already compiled) is the major barrier to experimenting with the byte code interpreter ;-) Many such experiments involve changing the byte code itself, and hence the byte code compiler also. Terry J. Reedy PS. When you start a new topic, start a new thread instead of piggybacking on an existing thread. Thread-aware readers typically present a list of one line per thread and expand on request. If I were not reading the thread on PEP 317, I would not have seen this.