Luis M. González: > it seems they intend to do "upfront > compilation". How?
Unladen swallow developers want to try everything (but black magic and necromancy) to increase the speed of Cpython. So they will try to compile up-front if/where they can (for example most regular expressions are known at compile time, so there's no need to compile them at run time. I don't know if Cpython compiles them before running time). What I like of Unladen swallow is that it's a very practical approach, very different in style from ShedSkin and PyPy (and it's more ambitious than Psyco). I also like Unladen swallow because they are the few people that have the boldness to do something to increase the performance of Python for real. They have a set of reference benchmarks that are very real, not synthetic at all, so for example they refuse to use Pystones and the like. What I don't like of Unladen swallow is that integrating LLVM with the CPython codebase looks like a not much probable thing. Another thing I don't like is the name of such project, it's not easy to pronounce for non-English speaking people. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
