Has anyone tried Python->Dylan conversion?

[Markus Stenberg]

Just as food for thought ; apparently, even the free Dylan
(www.gwydiondylan.org) outperforms Python by order of magnitude, at least
in method calls and such.

To back my assertion: inefficient simple-prime-test code, checking 1000->1M:

C	0.26s user 0.00s system 82% cpu 0.314 total
Dylan	1.12s user 0.02s system 97% cpu 1.174 total
Perl	4.69s user 0.01s system 95% cpu 4.898 total
Python	8.33s user 0.04s system 96% cpu 8.677 total

Even by doing the classical recurse-monster lisp-like prime test, the Dylan
version was roughly 3 seconds.

At least simpler syntactic parts should compile fairly cleanly, I
think.. but I dislike Dylan's syntax itself, so main use would be just
producing Python->Dylan->C modules (which would, theoretically speaking, be
faster than original Python, or current Py2C modules).

-Markus

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