???? Hardware-accellerated python ????

[Olivier Dagenais]

If the dictionary lookups are hash-based, there isn't very much improvement
to be done, as hash tables are usually O(1).  I'd say the best accelerator
for Python is RAM.  You can buy more RAM (at your local computer hardware
store) and add it to your computer and EVERYTHING will go faster!

The nature of an interpreted language (and many other features of python)
makes it hard to put it on a chip (or to compile).  At least, that's how I
understand it.  Maybe I'm wrong?

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


"Francesco Bochicchio" <fbochicchio at galactica.it> wrote in message
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>
> This is most probably a mid-summer night dream, but ...
>
> did anybody thought of any hardware feature which could
> accellerate the execution of python programs ?
> As I see it ( admittedly, without having read a single
> line of Python's interpreter code ), the most performed
> operation should be the lookup in the object (or module)
> dictionary.
> So any hardware or special instruction which accellerates
> this, would do a lot of good to the execution of  python
> programs ...
>
> Truly, it would raise portability issues, but ...
>
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> FB