"Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> planets are spherical (all implementations of Python are not natively >> compiled (and you said for whatever definition)), and b) It's a far cry >> to >> imagine a planet coming into being that's not spherical (a language as >> dynamic as Python, or most other scripting languages, would be either >> extremely difficult or impossible to make a native compiler for). > > There are native Python compilers, see psyco and pypy.
That does complicate the question since there are 4 levels of executing code interpreted bytecode-compiled-interpreted jit-complied natively compiled i've tried psyco a few times and never noticed much of a speed increase. if any. and then on the other hand, .net is supposed to be almost as fast as C because of its JIT. but the whole issue of the speed of .net seems to be enshrouded in mystery, so who knows. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
