In a message of Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:00:37 +0000, Bartc writes:
>Not just my option. From this 2010 paper for example ('High performance
>implementation of Python for CLI ...' by Antonio Cuni):
>
>"As a language, Python is very hard to implement efficiently: the
>presence of highly dynamic constructs makes static analysis of programs
>extremely difficult, thus preventing ahead of time (AOT) compilers to
>generate efficient target code."
Recall that my friend Anto is discussing 'why my phd thesis was hard
stuff, as I did this for PyPy' and not 'Python would be better if it
were easier to write fast compilers for it'. :)
Anto loves the dynamic nature of python. It just makes pypy hard.
Laura
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