sturlamolden wrote:
> On 10 Des, 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
>
>> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
>> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting
>> Hoare)
We're ten years into Python, and it's still a naive interpreter.
It's time for a serious optimizing compiler. Shed Skin is going
in the right direction. But for some reason, people seem to dislike the
Shed Skin effort. Its author writes "Am I the only one seeing the potential
of an implicitly statically typed Python-like-language that runs at
practically the same speed as C++?"
"For a set of 27 non-trivial test programs (at about 7,000 lines in total;
... measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 times over Psyco, about 10 on
average, and 2-220 times over CPython, about 35 on average." So that's
what's possible.
I'm surprised that Google management isn't pushing Guido towards
doing something about the performance problem.
John Nagle
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