Re: [Python-Dev] noob question regarding the interpreter

2005-04-28 Thread Guido van Rossum
> However, it looks like a switched interpreter. I just > find this surprising because python seems to run pretty fast, and a switched > interpreter is usually painfully slow. This just proves how worthless a generalization that is. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido

Re: [Python-Dev] noob question regarding the interpreter

2005-04-28 Thread Neil Schemenauer
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:47:18PM -0400, Jing Su wrote: > Is there work to change python into a direct-threaded or even JIT'ed > interpreter? People have experimented with making the ceval loop use direct threading. If I recall correctly, the resulting speedup was not significant. I suspect th