Terry Reedy wrote:
In any case, this seems to makes the contest one more of special-case optimization and less of general-case running time, and therefore of less relevance to users who want *their* programs to run faster with an out-of-the-box interpreter.
Indeed. I suspect, though, that if the test program exercises a sizable chunk of Python's functionality, we won't see a Parrot-based implementation that can run it. 2004 is a long time away, time enough for the PyPy effort to bear fruit. Guido, when it comes time to write the benchmark program, please get in touch with me; I'd like to help produce a realistic test program. --amk (www.amk.ca) Orchestra: Anagram of carthorse. -- Peter Greenaway, _Rosa: The Death of a Composer_