Wet Dream--python to native compiler

[Greg Ewing]

Aaron K. Johnson wrote:

> Has anyone used Psycho or Pyrex enough to critique/recommend it?
> 
> What are the technical reasons for the difficulty of having a native code
> compiler similar to what certain implementations of Lisp enjoy?


The main technical reason is that to generate *efficient* native code
requires either inserting type declarations in the source, or performing
some extremely heavy-duty type inference.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg