expression in an if statement

alex23 wuwei23 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 02:40:59 EDT 2010


John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:
> I was talking to the Facebook guys doing the compiler for PHP, and they
> said that it was a huge win for them that PHP doesn't allow dynamically
> replacing a function.

I'm not sure if I call all that effort for a 50% speed increase a win.
PyPy is seeing speed increases of up to 15 times that of CPython 2.6.2
without reducing the flexibility of the language at all.



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