Wet Dream--python to native compiler

[Michael Hudson]

Greg Ewing <see_reply_address at something.invalid> writes:

> Aaron K. Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone used Psycho or Pyrex enough to critique/recommend it?
> > What are the technical reasons for the difficulty of having a native
> > code
> > compiler similar to what certain implementations of Lisp enjoy?
> 
> 
> The main technical reason is that to generate *efficient* native code
> requires either inserting type declarations in the source, or performing
> some extremely heavy-duty type inference.

Well, that's the interesting thing about pysco: it does neither of
this things.  It instead works on the principle that what you have
just done will resemble what you will do next (a bit like a CPU's L1
cache, I guess).

Cheers,
M.

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