sturlamolden wrote: > On 10 Des, 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > >> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming." >> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting >> Hoare)
We're ten years into Python, and it's still a naive interpreter. It's time for a serious optimizing compiler. Shed Skin is going in the right direction. But for some reason, people seem to dislike the Shed Skin effort. Its author writes "Am I the only one seeing the potential of an implicitly statically typed Python-like-language that runs at practically the same speed as C++?" "For a set of 27 non-trivial test programs (at about 7,000 lines in total; ... measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 times over Psyco, about 10 on average, and 2-220 times over CPython, about 35 on average." So that's what's possible. I'm surprised that Google management isn't pushing Guido towards doing something about the performance problem. John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list