Spanish Inquisition?!
Paul Prescod
paul at prescod.net
Sat Sep 4 19:08:58 EDT 1999
C.Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
>
> > Thats no real problem. Any 'compiled' version of python, and Viperc is
> > no exception, must have an inbuilt interpreter, and the usual set of
> > builtin functions. This is required even without 'exec' and 'eval', in
> > case the compiler cannot deduce enough to optimise the code. For
> > example:
> >
> > for i in alist: print i
> >
> > is hard to optimise, since 'i' could be anything.
>
> Well, you *could* compile it.
And in fact, JPython *does*!
Paul Prescod
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