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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:00 PM +0100 2/3/03, Christian Tismer wrote:
>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...

While it could be, that's unlikely. Still, that'd be part of the 
ground rules we'd work out if someone takes me up on the challenge.
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                                         Dan

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