Neal Becker wrote: > One possible way to improve the situation is, that if we really believe > python cannot easily support such optimizations because the code is too > "dynamic", is to allow manual annotation of functions. For example, gcc > has allowed such annotations using __attribute__ for quite a while. This > would allow the programmer to specify that a variable is constant, or that > a function is pure (having no side effects).
Use pyrex. It is basically an python-syntax-clone C-Generator, and allows for type-annotation. It's supported by distutils, so that you can develop using pure python, and then take your critical code and move it to pyrex, with not too much effort. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
