compiled or interpreted?

[Alex Martelli]

"Nick Efford" <nde at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:G5Lz4o.EyA at leeds.ac.uk...
> On 12 Dec 2000 11:46:39 +0100, piet at cs.uu.nl <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
> > And Python doesn't have a JIT, like Java.
>
> Has the idea of developing a JIT for Python ever been considered?

Dunno, but developing Python for a JIT surely has -- witness
Jython and the Python .NET beta...!-)

Not that any performance boost is very observable yet, but...:-)


Alex