Python compiler?

[bjorn]

> [...]

> > This is probably not what J
> > Dubal had in mind, but that's life.  A Python VM is needed to execute Python
> > bytecodes just as a Java VM is needed to execute Java bytecodes, and that's
> > what "the interpreter" is.
>
> But isn't it possible to write a *compiler* for Python?

Sure, but "nobody"[*] seems to think it will be smaller/faster without introducing
limits on dynamic behavior and/or types...

-- bjorn

[*] although Viper can apparently do some special caseing by performing a
whole-program analysis...