On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well knowing that the Java one is quick is a good indication that the >> rpython one can be quick also. > > Yes - I think so. Perhaps one way is to ignore the current runtime, which > has been written more for functionality than performance as far as I can > see, and write an RPython runtime that is strictly aimed at performance and > RPython semantics etc. It is not a huge project to do this, but it is some > work of course. Indeed the Java parser has not been optimized for performance (yet) -- it was written with compatibility as the #1 concern. In particular I'm sure I've lost a bit of performance in order to support _ast.py and ast.py.
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