Python compilers?

Christian Tismer tismer at appliedbiometrics.com
Sun Oct 17 10:26:09 EDT 1999


skaller wrote:
...
>         That's correct. The interpreter Viperi is now running well enough
> to execute the pystone benchmark .. 10 times slower than CPython 1.5.2.
> Some of the functionality, however, is already faster than Python.
> For example, long integer seem faster. On the other hand, list
> concatenation is currently 100 times slower (I wish I knew why,
> the code is compiled down to machine code, there is no interpeter
> overhead involved).

If you send me a copy of the list implementation source code,
I can probably tell you why.

cheers - chris

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