[Python-Dev] Re: new bytecode results

[Dan Sugalski]

At 8:57 AM -0500 2/28/03, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>Terry Reedy wrote:
>>In any case, this seems to makes the contest one more of special-case
>>optimization and less of general-case running time, and therefore of
>>less relevance to users who want *their* programs to run faster with
>>an out-of-the-box interpreter.
>
>Indeed.  I suspect, though, that if the test program exercises a sizable
>chunk of Python's functionality, we won't see a Parrot-based 
>implementation that can run it.  2004 is a long time away, time 
>enough for the PyPy effort to bear fruit.

The challenge is core interpreter speed, so if the challenge programs 
use that and Parrot can't cope, I lose and pie will be flung. If the 
PyPy stuff gives a good turbo boost to the python core, great, 
that'll make it more challenging.
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                                         Dan

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