dtlog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I searched the faqs at python.org and didn't find an answer: > does using IronPython, instead of CPython, and compiling the > scripts into native windows executables (I heard IronPython > can do that) result in faster execution times?
I don't know what you heard but IronPython generates IL code which happens to be the bytecode of the CLR (the runtime of .NET). So you are not generating "native" stuff but a PE executable wrapping the .NET stuff in it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable#.NET.2C_metadata.2C_and _the_PE_format It seems IronPython being faster than CPython 2.4 in some tests but I can't say anything about that because I haven't seen that tests :-) -- Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have" - E. A. Chartier -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
