Python CPU? (Re: Python OS)

[Thomas Heller]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Peter Maas wrote:
>> The first step would probably be to define a Python OS. Surely no
>> CPU speaks Python :)
>
> Currently, no, but... *could* there be one?
>
> In one of my wilder daydreaming moments recently, I got
> to wondering what a machine designed from the ground up
> to run Python code might be like. I got a vision of a
> Python interpreter implemented in microcode, with a few
> extra bytecodes for low-level hardware access, with an
> OS written in Python running on top of it.
>
> Would it run Python code any faster than an interpreter
> running on an off-the-shelf CPU? Possibly not, but it's
> not clear that it couldn't, either. In any case, it
> would be a fun thing to design, and maybe even to build,
> perhaps using an FPGA.

Maybe a MyHDL backend for PyPy ?

Thomas