Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

Mark Hammond skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 10:03:26 EDT 2009


On 28/03/2009 9:50 PM, andrew cooke wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote:
>> [...]  IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully
>> implemented in a JIT compiled VM in a performant way, but it has issues
>> running C extension modules.
>>
>> I'll be curious to see where this project goes.
>
> given the comments on python-dev i wonder if this is the first indication
> that python is going to split into separate implementations for windows
> and unix (via .net and llvm, respectively)?

What comments are they?  There is no indication that unladen-swallow  is 
fundamentally broken for Windows, just temporarily broken due to the 
lack of windows developers/contributors...

Saying-no-to-fud ly,

Mark



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