Spanish Inquisition?!

[John Max Skaller]

On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:54:37 GMT, clgonsal at keeshah.penguinpowered.com (C.Laurence Gonsalves) wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 08:48:12 -0400, David Oppenheimer
>> P.S. Creating compiled code from Python  that didn't require the
>> interpreter to be distributed with it would be high magic indeed.
>
>Yeah, especially compiling those eval and exec functions...

	Thats no real problem. Any 'compiled' version
of python, and Viperc is no exception, must have an
inbuilt interpreter, and the usual set of builtin functions.
This is required even without 'exec' and 'eval', in case
the compiler cannot deduce enough to optimise the code.
For example:

	for i in alist: print i

is hard to optimise, since 'i' could be anything.

	Indeed, compiled python is likely
to be interpreted python, with a lot of 'builtin'
functions added by the compiler to replace
parts of the python code.

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