That hardware battle was fought long ago. Von Neumann machine vs. the Lisp machine. Guess who won?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine It would be very hard to fight that war all over again. Charlie On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op Fri, 23 May 2008 14:00:33 -0700, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Now this I can tell is false. The problem is not that it's difficult to > > "make a native compiler for" dynamic languages, the problem is that it's > > difficult to write native compiler for dynamic languages that generates > > code that beats the VM/byte-code interpreter/whatever you name it to be > > wotrh the effort. > > Well, it would be much easier if there would be hardware that was > designed for object oriented & dynamic programming... ;-) > > (Most current hardware is designed for use with C & similar languages, or > sometimes for massively parrallel computing (e.g. GPUs), but the last > tries to design hardware to fit something like Python date back to the > 1980s AFAIK...) > > > -- > JanC > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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