Is python not good enough?

[hackingKK]

On Saturday 16 January 2010 08:01 AM, Nobody wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:34:17 -0800, John Nagle wrote:
>
>    
>>      Actually, no.  It's quite possible to make a Python implementation that
>> runs fast.  It's just that CPython, a naive interpreter, is too primitive
>> to do it.  I was really hoping that Google would put somebody good at
>> compilers in charge of Python and bring it up to production speed.
>> "production"?
>>      


>>      Look at Shed Skin, a hard-code compiler for Python
>>      
> A hard-code compiler for the subset of Python which can easily be compiled.
>
> Shed Skin has so many restrictions that it isn't really accurate to
> describe the language which it supports as "Python".
> +1
>    


> Hardly any real-world Python code can be compiled with Shed Skin. Some of
> it could be changed without too much effort, although most of that is the
> kind of code which wouldn't look any different if it was implemented in
> C++ or Java.
>    


Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.