Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Luis M González wrote: >> 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. > > CPython uses a C compiler to compile the python code (written in C) > into native machine code.
That would be Cython: compile Python code to (optimised) C code and then run a C compiler over that to get native machine code. http://cython.org/ CPython compiles Python code to *byte-code* and then *interprets* that in a virtual machine (which happens to be written in C, hence the name). Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
