I've been doing some Psyco test. I'll post a new blog entry about it and send the information to the ml.
thanks Eduardo http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl On Dec 18, 2007 6:04 PM, John Richard Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote: > > > > > > I suggest taking a look at PyPy for Python, which will dynamic > > recompile > > Python to native code and likely give some good performance benefits. I > > really can't stand JIT compilation and would prefer something that takes > > advantage of Mono's own facilities, to centralize the effort in the JIT > > at least (Mono has nice stuff), but IronPython is Microsoft Permissive > > License which is not OSI approved. > > > > > > Has anyone looked at Psyco on the XO? The point is, no generic mono JIT > > is going to be as smart about guessing the 95% case for Python, as > > something written specifically for Python. > > > > The CIL dynamic re-compiler has a well-developed optimizer and a bunch > of other stuff, including an awesome garbage collector. The newer > version use a compacting garbage collector IIRC; though Python might use > reference counting internally (it might be better that way, but consider > the interpreter itself would be in CIL and use reflection ...). > > It's basically Python -> CIL -> CIL optimizer, not Python -> CIL -> C# > optimizer. Granted, yes, an optimizer aware of specific language ABI > specifics (like classes for C++, functions and structures for C, ect) > can pre-optimize and then let the lower level optimizer re-optimize the > code better (I think that's how GCC does it, optimizes a Gimple tree > based on language and then does a general optimization based on > hardware); but a CIL reflection compiler could compile Python into an > internal tree, optimize it, emit optimized CIL, and let Mono generate > optimized x86 code (as in, optimize the generated x86 code). > > > Disclaimer: I have no experience to back this up. > > I have fuzzy understanding of compiler internals, nothing formal and > nothing really great. Ask a gcc guy and a Mono guy. > > > > Jameson > > > -- > Bring back the Firefox plushy! > http://digg.com/linux_unix/Is_the_Firefox_plush_gone_for_good > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322367 > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
