Python is also a Lisp compiler name?

[Michael Hudson]

Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com (Gareth McCaughan) writes:

> When there have been discussions about the difficulties of compiling
> Python to decent native code, I have been tempted to post an article
> saying "I have on my machine a Python compiler, which does a fine
> job of type inference and such stuff despite the dynamism of the
> language, and produces code within a factor of 2 of optimized
> C"... :-)

One of these days I'll write a Python-to-Lisp translator (in which
tongue? I wonder), basically so I can heave cmucl at it and see how
fast it runs.  Not today, though.  Or tomorrow.

Cheers,
M.

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