At 11:00 AM -0800 12/24/03, Joe Wilson wrote:
Even with a zero overhead runloop a 20 times speed improvement
in running typical non-trivial Python programs is simply not possible.
It's not like the Python opcodes perform no work at all:
Performance Measurements for Pystone
http://zope.org/Members
Even with a zero overhead runloop a 20 times speed improvement
in running typical non-trivial Python programs is simply not possible.
It's not like the Python opcodes perform no work at all:
Performance Measurements for Pystone
http://zope.org/Members/jeremy/CurrentAndFutureProjects/pystone
Th
At 10:28 PM -0800 12/23/03, Joe Wilson wrote:
In order to get the 20x speed gain you seek I assume
that Parrot would have to perform some sort of variable
type inference to distinguish, for example, when a
scalar is really just an integer and use an integer register.
Otherwise, the PMCs in Parrot
In order to get the 20x speed gain you seek I assume
that Parrot would have to perform some sort of variable
type inference to distinguish, for example, when a
scalar is really just an integer and use an integer register.
Otherwise, the PMCs in Parrot would perform much the same
as the Python
At 2:28 PM -0800 12/22/03, Joe Wilson wrote:
Grotty bits? Can you be more specific?
What Python features or idioms do you believe Parrot will run faster
than the CLR?
Amongst other things, python allows for dynamic addition and deletion
of object attributes (or what we're calling attributes--per-o
Grotty bits? Can you be more specific?
What Python features or idioms do you believe Parrot will run faster
than the CLR?
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, but alas Miguel's mis-informed. A reasonable reimplementation
> of core python (without all the grotty bits that arguably t
At 10:12 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. The python source and bytecode for the challenge is due by the
end of the month
... which isn't many days off. Do you have the benchmarks already?
Nope. I'm waiting on Guido.
--
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nope. The python source and bytecode for the challenge is due by the
> end of the month
... which isn't many days off. Do you have the benchmarks already?
leo
At 7:45 PM -0800 12/21/03, Joe Wilson wrote:
Perhaps some of you may be interested in this
entry from Miguel de Icaza's web log:
Python running fast on .NET
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2003/Dec-09.html
Yeah, but alas Miguel's mis-informed. A reasonable reimplementation
of core pytho
