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RE: Python frontend?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Robert Dewar'" <dewar at gnat dot com>,<aph at redhat dot com>,<jante_nord at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:30:13 -0000
- Subject: RE: Python frontend?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Robert Dewar
> Sent: 01 November 2004 12:47
> Sure it would. The standard python interpretors are very slow. In class
> (my honors compiler class) we did a fast SPITBOL style compiler for
> Python generating x86 assembly language, and many programs ran 10-100
> times faster. That was gnerating x86 asm, and with a run-time whose
> critical sections were hand written in x86 asm.
Woah! I'm *very* seriously impressed, that seems a huge achievement with
such a dynamic language where so much of the overhead is about runtime
lookup and type-resolution. Is anything public/published of your work on
that?
cheers,
DaveK
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