Grant Edwards wrote: > No, it doesn't output corresponding machine code (that's what > some Java JIT implementations do, but I'm not aware of any > Python implementations that do that). The virtual machine > interpreter just does the action specified by the bytecode.
By "outputs corresponding machine code" I meant "feeds corresponding machine code to the CPU" to make the analogy clearer. Which can mean a function call. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #325: Your processor does not develop enough heat. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
