> So while it would be possible to apply the same strategy to > Python, it likely wouldn't gain any performance increase over > the interpreter.
Thanks, That was quite illustrative. But as I posted elsewhere, I am looking at the other advantages of native compilation rather than speed. Python's ability to interface with C code is quite good and I am happy to simply do the performance critical parts in it although I rarely end up needing to do that. But more often I am looking to use Python libraries in other languages since I am more familiar with them and they typically tend to be more high level (the way I like it) than the standard libraries of others. Perhaps someone already has a tool that simplifies / automates creating DLLs that embed and export Python functions as C prototypes. This was discussed in Pyrex mailing list a while ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
