Carl Banks wrote: > > Ok. Perhaps starting a Python JIT in something like MetaOCaml or Lisp/Scheme > > would be a good student project? > > ...and finishing would be a good project for a well-funded team of > experienced engineers.
I think this is a good idea. We could use the AST from the CPython compiler, translate on the fly to ANSI Common Lisp, and pass it off to SBCL (which is very fast and supports native threads). It would even solve the issue of Python's crappy GIL and reference counting (as opposed to a modern garbage collector). Another option would be to use something like pyrex to compile Python on-the-fly to C, and then compile using GCC or MSVC. A third option would be to translate on the fly to Scheme, and compile using Bigloo. It would not be a JIT-compiler, but rather something like the Lisp solution where individual functions can be compiled when speed is important. It sounds like a fun project to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
