On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:49:32AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: > You are, of course, very right there Volker. But tcc can be useful for > scripting (in a round-about way). tcc can be used as a back-end for a > scripting language - in other words, C is the intermediate language. > It's dynamic abilities would even allow eval/exec statements in your > scripts.
it doesn't need c as intermediary. all it needs is the capability to produce machinecode. psyco does that for python on ia32. pike does it nativly for a few more architectures. > I imagine python implemented this way would be significantly faster, > with a small loss in flexibility. like pyrex? http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ (just why does this url look so familiar?) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
