At 5:55 PM -0500 1/30/03, Terry Reedy wrote:
>"Graham Guttocks" <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz> wrote in message
>news:20030130211504.810.qmail@web10302.mail.yahoo.com...
>> Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > It's actually not all that tough
>>
>> Oh? Guido seems to disagree with you.
>
>No contradiction or disagreement. It is not all that tough to do
>something of limited benefit, such as pre-interpreting Python byte
>codes into a series of function calls in some
>compilable-to-machine-code language. It is *must* harder to do
>something much more useful, which is all Guido would be interested in.
You underestimate the benefit in the first case, and the second case
isn't really much more difficult. I expect one of the several reasons
that nobody's pursued this is that the current interpreter is deemed
fast enough, which is a perfectly good reason to not bother going
further.
--
Dan
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