On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 11:04:22 -0700 Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm surprised no one has mentioned Psyco yet -- probably because it evolved > into PyPy -- but IIRC, Psycho was pretty much the same as what the OP is > talking about -- direct Python to machine code, and easy on the fly or > ahead of time compilation.
That's a good point. > If I recall, the "magic" for dealing with a dynamic language was that it > was a "specializing" compiler -- if you call a function with, e.g. two > integers as input, it could compile a special version that only worked with > two integers, and thus could be native fast. (Armin even argued that it > *could* be faster than C :-) ). > > Not sure if this tool is doing anything like that, but it seems there are > some pretty big limits as to what can be done without either a JIT (like > PyPy), or type annotations (like Cython). Psyco *was* a JIT, just a rather primitive one compared to other efforts such as PyPy. Also it was CPython-based, which led to various difficulties. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/W5ANB3MWBOJF4IDTK2LE4HXVGYKQON4T/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
