sturlamolden wrote: > On Monday Microsoft announced a new runtime for dynamic languages, > which they call "DLR". It sits on top of the conventional .NET runtime > (CLR) and provides services for dynamically typed languages like > Python or Lisp (thus the cross-posting). Apparently is is distributed > under a BSD-like open-source license. > > I am curious to know how it performs in comparison to CPython and an > efficient compiled Lisp like CMUCL. Speed is a major problem with > CPython but not with .NET or CMUCL, so it will be interesting to see > how the DLR performs in comparison. It would be great to finally see a > Python that runs on steroids, but knowing M$ bloatware my expectations > are not too high. > > Has anyone looked at the DLR yet? What are your impression?
So far, there is not a lot of information available. The only statement about the technology I have read so far is that the DLR is a thin layer on top of the CLR. This doesn't say a lot. So it's hard to tell whether this is a (good) marketing stunt or whether there are actual substantial improvement to the infrastructure. Pascal -- My website: http://p-cos.net Common Lisp Document Repository: http://cdr.eurolisp.org Closer to MOP & ContextL: http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
