interpreter vs. compiled

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Jul 23 16:18:25 EDT 2008


castironpi wrote:

> Compiling a program is different than running it.  A JIT compiler is a
> kind of compiler and it makes a compilation step.  I am saying that
> Python is not a compiler and in order to implement JIT, it would have
> to change that fact.

good thing Python don't have to listen to you, then, so it can keep 
using its built-in compiler to produce programs for its built-in VM.

 > But still not the user's code, only the interpreter, which is running
 > in assembly already anyway in CPython.

good luck with your future career in computing!

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