[Python-ideas] Make Python code read-only

[Victor Stinner]

2014-05-21 2:00 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>> More optimizations
>> ==================
>>
>> See my notes for all ideas to optimize CPython:
>>
>>    http://haypo-notes.readthedocs.org/faster_cpython.html
>>
>> I explain there why I prefer to optimize CPython instead of working on
>> PyPy or another Python implementation like Pyston, Numba or similar
>> projects.
>
> You don't explain why you don't want to go with the selective optimisation
> approach of Numba.
>
> That isn't its own implementation - it's a way of marking particular
> functions to be accelerated.

I don't want to optimize a single function, I want to optimize a whole
application.

If possible, I would prefer to not have to modify the application to
run it faster.

Numba plays very well with numbers and arrays, but I'm not sure that
it is able to inline arbitrary Python function for example.

Victor