Builtin JIT or similar?

[Eric Aardoom]

Afanasiy wrote:
> Are there any plans to improve the performance of standard
> Python (in some cases) through the use of a JIT or similar?
> 
> I have discovered Psyco, and it is very interesting, but can break some
> code, does not come with Python, and requires small code modifications.
> 
> What I mean is something which does not change the behaviour of a Python
> application, and may not even require any modification of the code.
> 
> Perhaps it could be turned off with a commandline option.

Check out http://psyco.sourceforge.net/.

Cheers,

Eric