Isaac Gouy wrote:
> On May 6, 6:09 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>Alex Martelli wrote:
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>>>John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>>>On Apr 27, 9:07 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>>The CPython implementation is unreasonably slow compared
>>>>>>to good implementations of other dynamic languages such
>>>>>>as LISP and JavaScript.
>> My point is that there are optimizing hard-code compiler implementations
>>of many dynamic languages, including LISP, Self, and Smalltalk, but not
>>Python.
>
>
> I guess Lisp is a safe-ish example but I don't think Self really made
> it out of the lab, and it really depends which Smalltalk
> implementation you have in mind and what you think about Pysco.
See
http://research.sun.com/self/papers/third-generation.html
on a high performance Self implementation. That laid the groundwork
for Java's JIT system.
Here are some early Tamarin benchmarks.
http://www.playercore.com/pub/Tamarin/Avmplus_vs._javascript.htm
Tamarin doesn't do type inference, though, so they get the best
performance only with type declarations.
John Nagle
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