Rouslan Korneychuk, 01.04.2011 00:33:
I was looking at the list of bytecode instructions that Python uses and I noticed how much it looked like assembly. So I figured it can't be to hard to convert this to actual machine code, to get at least a small boost in speed.
I think I recall having read about something like this before, but I can't quite find it. In any case, you may want to take a look at both Cython and Psyco.
Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list