On 8 Feb., 17:00, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Olson wrote: > > The basic approach I took was compiling to bytecode, and then > > transliterating python bytecode to x86 asm. And it is working a little bit. > > An interesting option might be to generate the byte code used by > the SpiderMonkey engine in Mozilla. That's used to handle both > Javascript in Firefox and ActionScript in Flash. It has a just-in-time > compiler, so you get x86 machine code when you need it. > And the run time engine is tiny; there's a copy inside Flash, which is > only 2MB. > > That could be a way to get a faster Python without bringing excess > baggage. > > John Nagle
This code generation for an arbitrary backend sounds more like an appropriate task for PyPy. I think Grant's or anyone elses compiler could be a viable tool for augmenting the CPython interpreter in particular in the presence of optional type annotations in Py3K. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
