On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote:
psyco is 32 bit only and development has pretty much ceased since all the
chaps working on it went to PyPy.
Also, for some perverse bits of code, it plainly skips compilation.
Oh. :(
Didn't know that.
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Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.comwrote:
Also interesting stuff about the Java comparison. The question remains,
why
the JVM is so fast and why Python is not as far as JVM? I am sure there
must
be a ton of info on this over the net :)
Java is
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 02:06:31PM +0530, Navin Kabra wrote:
Java is statically typed. Which means that the compiler (and the JIT
compiler) has lots of information available to it. Lots of bindings can be
done at compile time. Lots of optimizations can be done at compile time. And
Yes, agreed.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote:
psyco is 32 bit only and development has pretty much ceased since all the
chaps working on it went to PyPy.
Also, for some perverse bits of
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:19:18AM +0530, Navin Kabra wrote:
Nope. With JIT compilation, a JVM can actually beat C++
This seems a controversial statement to make. I have seen this come up
time and again at various
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't quite follow you here, I'm sorry. I was chatting with someone in
IRC a week back, and here's his theory. He says in languages such as Python
or Perl, almost all I/O, database etc are all optimized in C and
