But as Konrad pointed out, the python VM (and the pypy vm) offers nothing that JVMs don't support better. Everything from concurrency to the GC is implemented better in the JVM.
Timothy On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg < odysso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Konrad Hinsen < > googlegro...@khinsen.fastmail.net> wrote: > >> --On 29 avril 2013 09:09:27 -0400 Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> >> wrote: >> >> On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote: >>> >>> You could always give >>> https://github.com/halgari/**clojure-py<https://github.com/halgari/clojure-py>a >>> spin, >>>> might not be so easy to get everything working though. :) >>>> >>> >>> It might be worth it, if we could still write in Clojure and get good >>> multicore utilization and good performance overall for our application. >>> >>> Is there evidence that code written/run this way will perform >>> particularly well? >>> >> >> No. The Python VM has a global interpreter lock that prevents parallel >> execution of Python bytecode. If you want to parallel processing in Python >> (more precisely, the CPython implementation), you must either port >> CPU-intensive stuff to C or Cython, or run multiple communicating CPython >> instances. >> >> Konrad. > > > clojure-py code should run on pypy, which is much more promising; > http://pypy.org/ > The support for http://www.stackless.com/ is especially interesting. > > Jonathan > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
