On Jan 25, 2008 1:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:20:20PM -0800, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > You can have both. I've believed this for many years and have been > > frustrated that both are not being provided in one language. > > Maybe this is just a naive thought but I'd like to have the most > terse/elegant/readable language and then have the most powerfully built > compiler to take care of performance for me. Have you ever heard or seen the > author of Psycho and PyPy Armin Rigo speak? Hi semi-serious dream is to get > Python faster than C (in many cases). His is a compiler guru and plans to do > this with all kinds of clever compiler work. > > That is the kind of thinking I like....no compromises.
Yeah the Self guys were singing this same tune back in the 90s. No one has pulled it off. Instead we're always waiting for that super dynamic language compiler + run-time that (a) gives the great performance, (b) doesn't chew up massive amounts of RAM at run-time and (c) isn't buggy. My impression is that it's fundamentally impossible. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
