[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:46:25 -0500


    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".  

Skip