python compiled to native in less than a year?

[Roy Katz]

Scott, 

the problem with Python compilation is optimization;  you can "freeze" a
python program into an executable even now.  I heard it somewhere that
compiled Python would consist of nothing more than calls to Python's C
API.  Granted, that shaves off the interpreter layer, but you're still
going through the P-API.  I suspect it is the same way in JPython
(given that JPython implements the Python API in Java, am I right? (?))..



/R



On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, scotth wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Since the new .NET platform from MS will take all the compatible .NET
> languages and transform them to an IL (intermediate language ???), then take
> the IL to native compiled code, this means that python will be compiled, but
> only for the Windows platform.
> 
> Is what I have said correct, or have I missed something?  This would give
> python a huge boost!
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
>