python compiled to native in less than a year?

[scotth]

Since Python will be one of the .NET languages, it will get compiled like
all the other .NET languages.  Whatever the problems, ActiveState/MS
have/are going to over come it if my info is correct.

Scott


"Roy Katz" <katz at Glue.umd.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0101151106200.7702-100000 at z.glue.umd.edu...
> Scott,
>
> the problem with Python compilation is optimization;  you can "freeze" a
> python program into an executable even now.  I heard it somewhere that
> compiled Python would consist of nothing more than calls to Python's C
> API.  Granted, that shaves off the interpreter layer, but you're still
> going through the P-API.  I suspect it is the same way in JPython
> (given that JPython implements the Python API in Java, am I right? (?))..
>
>
>
> /R
>
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, scotth wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since the new .NET platform from MS will take all the compatible .NET
> > languages and transform them to an IL (intermediate language ???), then
take
> > the IL to native compiled code, this means that python will be compiled,
but
> > only for the Windows platform.
> >
> > Is what I have said correct, or have I missed something?  This would
give
> > python a huge boost!
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
>