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Is a "real" C-Python possible?

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Tue Dec 11 15:56:35 EST 2007 
John Nagle a écrit :
> sturlamolden wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Des, 23:49, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>>
>>> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
>>> --C.A.R. Hoare (often misattributed to Knuth, who was himself quoting
>>> Hoare)
> 
> 
>    We're ten years into Python, and it's still a naive interpreter.
> It's time for a serious optimizing compiler.

Care to provide a less "naive" one ?

(snip usual rant)

>    I'm surprised that Google management isn't pushing Guido towards
> doing something about the performance problem.

Could it be possible they don't see Python's perfs as a "problem" ?

Ok, I don't mean there's no room for improvement here. If you feel like 
addressing the problem, you're welcome - in case you didn't notice, 
Python is free software.
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