[Python-Dev] V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish and Python

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mart Sõmermaa <mrts.pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> As most of you know there's constant struggle on the JavaScript front to get
> even faster performance out of interpreters.
> V8, TraceMonkey and SquirrelFish have brought novel ideas to interpreter
> design, wouldn't it make sense to reap the best bits and bring them to
> Python?
>
> Has anyone delved into the designs and considered their applicability to
> Python?
>
> Hoping-to-see-some-V8-and-Python-teams-collaboration-in-Mountain-View-ly
> yours,
> Mart Sõmermaa
>

Hi Mart,

This is a better discussion for the python-ideas list. That being
said, there was a thread discussing this last year, see:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/083176.html

-jesse