On Feb 6, 2:43 am, "Luis M. González" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 feb, 05:19, Santiago Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ( Surely if this question has been asked for a zillion of times... ) > > ( and sorry for my english! ) > > > I'm impressed with python. I'm very happy with the language and I > > find Python+Pygame a very powerful and productive way of writing 2D > > games. I'm not, at this moment, worried about execution speed of the > > small game I'm working on (it runs at full 60 fps even in an old AMD- > > K6 450 Laptop computer), but I continue asking me the same question: > > > Why not a Python COMPILER? > > > It would be very nice to be able to output Linux, MAC or Windows > > binaries of compiled (not bytecompiled) code. It would run faster, it > > will be smaller in size (I think) and it will be easy to distribute to > > people not having python installed. Yes, I know about py2exe, but I'm > > not sure if that's the right aproach. > > > So, what's wrong with compiling python? > > > Maybe is not possible due to nature of the language? Is just a > > decision? > > > What do you think about this? > > There are some projects aimed to speed up Python by a large margin. > Right now you can use psyco, which is considered to be feature > complete, and whose future relies on the Pypy project. > > Pypy is a very ambitious project and it aims, amongst many other > goals, to provide a fast just-in-time python implementation. > They even say that the "secret goal is being faster than c, which is > nonsense, isn´t it?" (I still didn´t get the joke though...). > > And finally, you have ShedSkin, a project developed by one lonely and > heroic coder (Mark Dufour). > Shedskin aims at being a static python compiler, which can translate a > subset of python to stand alone executables. > It also can compile extension modules for cpython. > It works by translating python to c++ and then to machine code. > The python code must be done in a static way (getting rid of dynamic > features like, for example, not asigning different types to the same > variable). > > Luis
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