Internet C++ and Python?

Jochen Schmidt jsc at dataheaven.de
Fri Nov 17 06:11:03 EST 2000


Courageous wrote:

> I've heard Vyper is faster than vanilla Python. But that aside, I believe
> you will have to wait on some fairly heavy-duty compiler technology,
> man. Getting dynamic languages to perform well is a black art.

I wonder often why some many people think that adding type-declarations
to python would be so difficult!
Maybe it would help the language-designers to take a deep look at 
CommonLisps type-declaratiions.
Then it could be that those often heard "need for _static_ type-declarations
" is counted as nonsense as it is.

Adding CommonLisp-like declarations to python should be a very simple
and backwards-compatible solution that makes incremental development of 
an really optimizing python-compiler possible.

Regards,
Jochen



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