On Jul 30, 11:10 am, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > > Well the pyc, which I thought was the Python bytecode, is then > > interpreted by the VM. > > Python is often referred as byte-code interpreted language. Most modern > languages are interpreted languages. The list [1] is rather long. > Technically speaking even native code is interpreted by the micro code > of most CPUs. > > [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
Once upon a time there where lisp machines, whith processors designed to fastly execute lisp code ... I worked with one of them for 2 years. I wonder: has anybody thought of making a python-machine, or at least a processor able to directly execute high-level bytecode (LLVM-like?). I think the main feature of such a machine should be hyper-fast hash lookup. Then dynamic memory management hardware ... Ciao ----- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
