a basic bytecode to machine code compiler

[Stefan Behnel]

Rouslan Korneychuk, 01.04.2011 00:33:
> I was looking at the list of bytecode instructions that Python uses and I
> noticed how much it looked like assembly. So I figured it can't be to hard
> to convert this to actual machine code, to get at least a small boost in
> speed.

I think I recall having read about something like this before, but I can't 
quite find it. In any case, you may want to take a look at both Cython and 
Psyco.

Stefan