castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You're saying the VM can't compile code. That makes sense, it's not a >compiler.
I wouldn't say "can't". The current CPython VM does not compile code. It COULD. The C#/.NET VM does. IronPython, for example, is an implementation of Python that uses .NET. In that case, the code *IS* JIT compiled to assembly when the program starts. >Do I understand correctly that JIT does compile to native >code in some cases? VMs that use JIT do, yes. >But that's not the only thing that stops python >from precompiling to assembly directly. GNU doesn't come with >Python. Do you mean Linux? >What sorts of minimal information would be necessary to take >from the GNU libs for the user's specific processor, (the one they're >downloading their version of Python for), to move Python to the >further step of outputting the machine code? I don't know why you think GNU has anything to do with this. There's nothing that prevents the Python run-time from JIT compiling the code. IronPython does this. CPython does not. It's an implementation decision. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
