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2009/6/4 Luis M. González <luis...@gmail.com>: > I am very excited by this project (as well as by pypy) and I read all > their plan, which looks quite practical and impressive. > But I must confess that I can't understand why LLVM is so great for > python and why it will make a difference. > > AFAIK, LLVM is alot of things at the same time (a compiler > infrastructure, a compilation strategy, a virtual instruction set, > etc). > I am also confussed at their use of the term "jit" (is LLVM a jit? Can > it be used to build a jit?). > Is it something like the .NET or JAVA jit? Or it can be used to > implement a custom jit (ala psyco, for example)? > > Also, as some pypy folk said, it seems they intend to do "upfront > compilation". How? > Is it something along the lines of the V8 javascript engine (no > interpreter, no intermediate representation)? > Or it will be another interpreter implementation? If so, how will it > be any better...? > > Well, these are a lot of questions and they only show my confussion... > I would highly appreciate if someone knowledgeable sheds some light on > this for me... > > Thanks in advance! > Luis > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
