Bytecode optimisation

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "PH" == Phil Hunt <philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> writes:

  PH> Has anyone looked into whether Python could be speeded up by
  PH> using similar techniques to those Self uses?

It seems quite likely that these techniques would help.  (Skip
Montanaro argued this point rather forcefully at the last Developers'
Day.)  But it is a *lot* of work -- and a lot of platform-specific
work at that.

Any idea how much time and money went into HotSpot (which is only
available for Windows and Sparc)?  It would seem that they are fairly
similar projects.

Jeremy