On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Francesco Bochicchio<bieff...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ...
Yes, it was considered a decade ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/004451.html Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
