On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:37 am, bartc wrote: > What proportion of Python implementations depend on executing byte-code?
My guess is 100%. Pretty much all modern interpreters of any language execute some form of byte-code or another. The bad old days where interpreters repeatedly parsed and executed each line of source are long gone. PyPy generates some sort of byte-code, with a JIT compiler to generate machine code on the fly for sufficiently "hot" code. IronPython uses byte-code for the .Net virtual machine. Jython uses byte-code for the Java virtual machine. CPython uses byte-code for its own virtual machine. There was a project for a Python interpreter for the Parrot VM, but I think that's no longer in development. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
