On Mar 31, 8:38 am, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Dufour wrote: > > Shed Skin allows for translation of pure (unmodified), implicitly > > statically typed Python programs into optimized C++, and hence, > > ^^^^^> highly > optimized machine language. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Wow, I bet all C++ compiler manufacturers would want you to work for > them. > > Regards, > > Björn > > -- > BOFH excuse #23: > > improperly oriented keyboard
Mark has been doing an heroic job so far. Shedskin is an impressive piece of software and, if pypy hadn't been started some time ago, it should have gotten more attention from the community. I think he should be taken very seriously. He is the first programmer I know who actually released working code(and a lot of it) of a project that actually manages to speed up python by a large margin, by means of advanced type inference techniques. Other people, in the past, have attended conferences and made spectacular announcements of projects that could speed up python by 60x or more, but never ever released any code. Mark has been working quietly for a long time, and his works deserves a lot of credit (and hopefully, some help). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
