[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Christian Tismer]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
...

> If you want to bet, I'll put up $10 and a round of beer (or other 
> beverage of your choice) at OSCON 2004 for all the python labs & zope 
> folks that says parrot beats the current python interpreter when running 
> all the python benchmark suite programs (that don't depend on extensions 
> written in C, since we're shooting for pure engine performance) from 
> bytecode. Game?

Do you mean the current Python interpreter of 2004?
That could be quite a different beast...

ciao - chris