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[KennyTM~]

On Mar 29, 11 04:33, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/28/2011 1:12 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Walter:
>>
>>> By fundamental technical issue, I mean things like Python's numeric
>>> types
>>> which require runtime testing for every operation, and are very
>>> resistant
>>> to known techniques of optimization.
>>
>> Life is a bit more complex than that: - The Lua JIT has shown once and
>> for
>> all that dynamic typing is not as bad (performance-wise) as you think.
>
> There's a lot of money and manpower behind Python. If this were true,
> why hasn't this technology been done for Python?
>

Psyco? (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/, though it seems to be stuck at 2.6)

PyPy also supports JITting 
(http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/jit/index.html)

> Secondly, even Lua's proponents (like ilikecakes) says he uses Lua in
> hybrid configurations with C and C++, so there is clearly some sort of
> deficit with Lua.
>
>