Python as Guido Intended

[Bryan]

> But suppose someone came up with a Python compiler.  It
> would compile any Python program but there would be no
> speed benefit unless you carefully wrote the code to not use
> many of Python's dynamic features, so that either by type
> inferencing or programmer supplied static declarations, the
> compiler could generate efficient native machine code
> that executes at near C speeds.
> Obviously this would require changes (mostly additions?)
> to the Python language, though these changes would still
> allow today's style dynamic code to be written and run
> (though just as slow as today's runs).
> The payout would be that things written as C-extensions
> today, would be writable in (a restricted form of) Python.
> Would the Python orthodoxy favor such a development?
> Or would that be turning Python into a screwdriver?
> 
>

i agree with you... pyrex should be part of the python distribution :)

bryan