Re: [OT] "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-28 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven a écrit : > -On [20080125 14:07], Bruno Desthuilliers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I'm surprised you've not been flamed to death by now - last time I >> happened to write a pretty similar thing, I got a couple nut case >> accusing me of being a liar trying to spread

Re: "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-28 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Paul Boddie a écrit : > On 25 Jan, 14:05, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christian Heimes a écrit : >> >>> No, that is not correct. Python code is compiled to Python byte code and >>> execute inside a virtual machine just like Java or C#. >> I'm surprised you've not been flamed t

Re: [OT] "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-26 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20080125 14:07], Bruno Desthuilliers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I'm surprised you've not been flamed to death by now - last time I >happened to write a pretty similar thing, I got a couple nut case >accusing me of being a liar trying to spread FUD about Java vs Python >respective VMs inner

Re: "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-25 Thread Christian Heimes
Paul Boddie wrote: > Well, it is important to make distinctions when people are wondering, > "If Python is 'so slow' and yet everyone tells me that the way it is > executed is 'just like Java', where does the difference in performance > come from?" Your responses seemed to focus more on waving that

Re: "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Boddie
On 25 Jan, 14:05, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Christian Heimes a écrit : > > > No, that is not correct. Python code is compiled to Python byte code and > > execute inside a virtual machine just like Java or C#. > > I'm surprised you've not been flamed to death by now - last time I > happened to w

[OT] "just like Java" (was :Re: translating Python to Assembler)

2008-01-25 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Christian Heimes a écrit : > Wim Vander Schelden wrote: >> Python modules and scripts are normally not even compiled, if they have >> been, >> its probably just the Python interpreter packaged with the scripts and >> resources. > > No, that is not correct. Python code is compiled to Python byte co