[Types-sig] Core Python.... (less is more)

[Paul Prescod]

neelk@cswcasa.com wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> If this is what you want, typing is only as a second-order effect;
> creating a more immutable module type and adding a method cache for
> method invocations is more effective and a lot easier. These two can
> probably combine to give a factor of 2-4 speedup in typical code,
> judging by how much faster Squeak is than Python.

Okay, but you are talking about improving the interpreter. I'm talking
about making a compiler or improving the existing compiler (Py2C).  I
would expect that a compiler using built-in types could achieve much
more than 2-4 times speed improvement.
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