On Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:56:46 PM UTC-2, Philip Herron wrote: > I've been working on GCCPY since roughly november 2009 at least in its > concept. It was announced as a Gsoc 2010 project and also a Gsoc 2011 > project. I was mentored by Ian Taylor who has been an extremely big > influence on my software development carrer.
Cool! > Documentation can be found http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/PythonFrontEnd. > (Although this is sparse partialy on purpose since i do not wan't > people thinking this is by any means ready to compile real python > applications) Is there any document describing what it can already compile and, if possible, showing some benchmarks? > But at least to me there is at least to me an un-answered question in > current compiler implementations. AOT vs Jit. > > Is a jit implementation of a language (not just python) better than > traditional ahead of time compilation. > > What i can say is ahead of time at least strips out the crap needed > for the users code to be run. As in people are forgetting the basics > of how a computer works in my opinion when it comes to making code run > faster. Simply need to reduce the number of instructions that need to > be executed in order to preform what needs to be done. Its not about > Jit and bla bla keyword llvm keyword instruction scheduling keyword > bla. Maybe a less agressive tone (and a lot more research before going into sweeping statements that do nothing to further your own project) could result in a better level of discussion? > I could go into the arguments but i feel i should let the project > speak for itself its very immature so you really cant compare it to > anything like it but it does compile little bits and bobs fairly well > but there is much more work needed. Can you compare it to Nuitka (http://nuitka.net/), ShedSkin (http://nuitka.net/) and Pythran (http://pythonhosted.org/pythran/) when you think it's mature enough? These projects have test suits you can borrow to chart you progress along the full-language support road. It'd be good to find a place for your project on http://compilers.pydata.org/ , as soon as you better describe its workings. > There is nothing at steak, its simply an idea provoked from a great > phd thesis and i want to see how it would work out. I don't get funded > of paid. I love working on compilers and languages but i don't have a > day job doing it so its my little pet to open source i believe its at > least worth some research. It's very interesting indeed. Congratulations and thank you for your work. Victor -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
