Hi [Skip Montanaro] > > Jeremy> If we had a JVM implementation designed to support Python, there > Jeremy> would be no need to implement most of the opcodes. We'd only > Jeremy> need getstatic and invokevirtual <0.2 wink>. The typed opcodes > Jeremy> (int, float, etc.) would never be used. > > Perhaps Armin Rego's Psyco stuff could make use of them if he chose the JVM > as his "other VM". > Yes, but feeding the JVM with bytecodes costs more than feeding a real CPU or a VM written to deal quickly with little chunks of code. JVM dynamic loading has a verification phase, accept only full class definitions and then you enter the interpretation/hotspot collecting phase and then dynamic compilation stuff... Samuele.
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