Ideas for a project? (a MSc project, sort of)

[Douglas Alan]

scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) writes:

> It would be interesting to have an overview of optimizations in CL
> compilers, and how they could be applied to Python (or why they
> can't).

See the paper "Making Pure Object-Oriented Languages Practical"

   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/chambers91making.html

to find out how to make a compiler for Python that would generate very
fast code.  These techniques work on Self, which is even more
orthogonal and flexible than Python, and I can't think of any reason
why they wouldn't work on Python too.  (I don't know how these
techniques differ from those typically used in Lisp compilers.)

|>oug