Python frontend?

[Dave Korn]

> -----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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