Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > 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.
Actually I meant "compile the python source code" - sorry if I wasn't clear! -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
