Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/12/2010 10:17 AM, Krister Svanlund wrote:
Their goal of
making Go very fast to compile by machines somewhat conflicts with
Python's goal of being fast to read by humans.
Actually, no. It's quite possible to make a Python implementation that
runs fast. It's just that CPython, a naive interpreter, is too primitive
to do it. I was really hoping that Google would put somebody good at
compilers in charge of Python and bring it up to production speed.
Look at Shed Skin, a hard-code compiler for Python with automatic
type inference. One guy did that.
The language is fine, but the CPython implementation is obsolete.
John Nagle
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