Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fact 1: CPython compiles source code to byte-code. > fact 2: CPython executes this byte-code. > fact 3: Sun's JDK compiles source code to byte-code. > fact 4: Sun's JDK executes this byte-code. > > Care to prove me wrong on any of these points ? Don't bother: you > can't.
Fact 4 is misleading because it is only one option available to Sun's JDK. Sun's JDK is also capable of transforming the byte-code to native code and letting the processor execute that instead of the original byte code, and that is where the most significant speed increase comes from. Most importantly, it does so automatically, by default, with no programmer intervention or configuration, and with 100% compatibility, so it doesn't compare well to Python accelerators like psyco. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
