So far as I can tell from Unladed Swallow and PyPy, it is some of these Dynamic features of Python, such as Dynamic Typing that make it hard to compile/optimize and hit C like speeds.
Hence the need for RPython in PyPy or Restricted Python in Shedskin? Sarvi ________________________________ From: William Leslie <[email protected]> To: Saravanan Shanmugham <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 1:40:03 AM Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Question on the future of RPython But what makes you think that? A dynamic compiler has more information, so it should be able to produce better code. On 02/09/2010 6:37 PM, "Saravanan Shanmugham" <[email protected]> wrote: > >awesome. > >The point I was making is that RPython(a static subset of Python) will be faster >than Dynamic Python code on a JIT or compiled to machine code. > >Sarvi > > > >----- Original Message ---- >From: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <[email protected]> >To: Saravanan Shanmugh... >Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 1:28:14 AM >Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] Question on the future of RPython > >Hi, > >2010/9/2 Saravanan Shanmugham <[email protected]>: >> We have Pickle and cPickle for performance. ...
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