D vs VM-based platforms

[Jan Claeys]

Op Tue, 01 May 2007 11:25:06 +1000
schreef Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com>:

> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Well, in practice most Python code just runs on the Python bytecode
> > interpreter (and in most other cases on the Java or .NET VMs), and
> > with a good reason.
> > ...  
> 
> The really interesting stuff on Python is happening over at the
> PyPy[1] project.

It's a very interesting project, but RPython is not the same language as
Python, and they left out some of the things that make compiling Python
to native code so difficult...

> It's all very cool, and really hard to understand. :P

Right, I didn't try to understand the details yet.  ;)


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JanC