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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/28/11 4:31 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
>
>> There's a lot of money and manpower behind Python. If this were true, why hasn't this technology been done for Python?<
>
> It was done, more than one time. One good JIT was Psyco. And more recently PyPy is about to surpass Psyco in performance:
> http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/
>
> But the Lua JIT is quite better than Psyco, its programmer is very intelligent (Psyco author too is an intelligent programmer, Armin Rigo).
>
> And more importantly, this whole discussion can't be reduced to just a static Vs dynamic typing.

To be brutally honest, I'd say that this discussion (and a few others) 
could be reduced to zero.

We have a good list of things we know need to be done, all vying for top 
positions. We're gearing up for a GSoC 2011 program that will be, it 
seems, extremely rewarding but quite taxing for those of us who are 
overseeing the process. This is a good time to stay focused and productive.

Discussions about some or another minutia or comparative merits and 
demerits of various approaches can quickly drown the good content. At 
best this newsgroup would contain a majority of GSoC proposals and 
related discussions, review discussions for the currently proposed 
modules, preliminary design discussions on emerging libraries, progress 
reports, and the such.


Thanks,

Andrei