"Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The second articple does have a column for Psyco. It helps in some areas | but still not good enough to stand up against Java. Plus, Psyco is not the | main stream and has stopped development.
It further development is effectively part of the PyPy project, which includes some jit work. | I'm also wondering, if Psyco is the right way to do, any reason it's not | being integrated into standard Python? It does not accelerate everything and may slow somethings, it was (is?) not compatible with everything, it bloats space requirements, it competes with C/Fortran coded extensions (such as NumPy), it was originally I386 specific, its development cycle was much faster than Python's release cycle, ... The cutoff between what goes in the core/stdlib is arbitrary in borderline cases, but some cutoff is necessary. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
