John Nagle: > Personally, I think the Shed Skin approach > is more promising.
ShedSkin will probably have scaling problems: as the program size grows it may need too much time to infer all the types. The author has the strict policy of refusing any kind of type annotation, this make it unpractical. And, despite your interest in ShedSkin, so far very few people have given a hand actually developing SS (I think partially because ShedSkin Python sources aren't much hackable. This is very bad for an OpenSource project), so I think the author now has lost part of the will to develop this project (but probably we'll see one of two more versions). For me so far the most viable way to produce a faster Python system seems a version of CPython with Cython and something Psyco-like built- in (and a built-in compiler on Windows, like MinGW 4.2.1), maybe with some syntax support in the Python language, allowing to mix statically compiled Python code with dynamically compiled Python code in an easy way (as CLisp sometimes does). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
