On 3/31/2011 6:33 PM, Rouslan Korneychuk wrote:
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.
And so I whipped up a proof of concept, available at
https://github.com/Rouslan/nativecompile
I'm aware that PyPy already has a working JIT compiler, but I figure it
will be a long time before they have a version of Python that is ready
for everybody to use, so this could be useful in the mean time.
I believe PyPy folk think it ready now, at least for some uses.
Speedwise, it is more or less is now comparable to CPython, winning some
benchmarks, losing others.
...
What do people think? Would I be wasting my time going further with this?
Depends on whether your goal is personal (learning, fun, use) or
usefulness to others. For the latter, you *might* do better to help with
an existing project, such as Cython or Dufour's ShedSkin.
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