Concerns about performance w/Python, Pysco on Pentiums

[phil hunt]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:50:27 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>
>At the moment, it's actually "fast enough", so this isn't an
>urgent concern.  On the other hand, our intention is to use this
>simulator to allow true test-driven development of embedded 
>system code (which, I believe, may well be a "first"), and 
>as we grow the number of tests we will doubtless become interested
>in better performance.  With the P3 machine we can run at 1/100 
>the native CPU speed, but I'd like to see something an order of 
>magnitude faster. 

I'm sure the thought of re-coding it in C/C++ has occurred to you.

Writing a machine code emulator isn't something I'd
consider Python to be the natural choice for. And I doubt if the C 
code would be much (if any) more complex.

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