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[eric]

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Subject: Re: A faster Python?, Python compiler, Dylan,...
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:39:55 -0500
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Hey Magnus,

That is exactly what Pat Miller of LLNL is working on.  The function
weave.accelerate() (in CVS and quite limited right now) is aimed at this
purpose.  It is a little different than Python2C to satisfy some needs in the
scientific community.  Also, Greg Ewing's new Pyrex project is a good candidate
for this sort of thing -- hopefully we can learn from each other because Pyrex
looks very promising.

So, the short answer is "good idea -- we're working on it." :-)

eric


----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus Lie Hetland" <mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: A faster Python?, Python compiler, Dylan,...


> In article <mailman.1017935351.5088.python-list at python.org>, eric
> wrote:
> [snip]
> >If this is the only criticism, than we're doing quite well. :-)
>
> How about including some code from Python2C (or similar projects)...
> Then you could write the code in the inline string with (possibly
> restricted) Python syntax, have it translated to C and then inlined...
> Then one *wouldn't* have to write things twice, and the criticism
> disappears ;)
>
> (Actually, I think it would be quite cool...)
>
> --
> Magnus Lie Hetland                                  The Anygui Project
> http://hetland.org                                  http://anygui.org