On May 10, 7:18 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, native machine code depends on the machine, or at least the > machine being emulated by the hardware. Fortunately or not, the dominance > of the x386 model makes this less of a problem. CMUCL and SBCL depends on the dominance of the x86 architecture. GCL uses the GCC backend, which supports a wide range of architectures. Building a compiler backend is not needed for a Python JIT, one can accept the GPL license and use GCC as a backend. Or one could translate between Python and Lisp on the fly, and use a compiled Lisp (CMUCL, SBCL, Franz, GCL) as runtime backend. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
