Why not a Python compiler?

[Luis M. Gonzalez]

Hi Carl,

Well, lets suppose that being faster than C is the real goal...
Are you confident that it will be reached? How far is it at this moment?
I've been following the project but the scarcity of news is getting me
anxious...

Cheers,
Luis



On Feb 6, 2008 2:14 PM, Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz at gmx.de> wrote:

> Reedick, Andrew wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: python-list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org [mailto:python-
> >> list-bounces+jr9445=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Luis M. González
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:44 PM
> >> To: python-list at python.org
> >> Subject: Re: Why not a Python compiler?
> >>
> >>
> >> Pypy is a very ambitious project and it aims, amongst many other
> >> goals, to provide a fast just-in-time python implementation.
> >> They even say that the "secret goal is being faster than c, which is
> >> nonsense, isn´t it?" (I still didn´t get the joke though...).
> >>
> >
> > 'c' is also the speed of light.  And since nothing can travel faster
> than light...
>
> nice theory, but wrong: The PyPy home page uses a capital letter C:
>
> http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/home.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Friedrich Bolz
>



-- 
Luis M. González
Tel/fax: (54-11) 4711-6783
celular: 15-5177-0650
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20080206/667eaaf7/attachment.html>