Dynamic languages can be compiled [Was: Prothon gets Major Facelift in Vers 0.1.0 [Prothon]]

[Duncan Booth]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote in news:tyf1xl8n0yl.fsf_-
_ at pcepsft001.cern.ch:

> Name             Interpreted        Compiled   With declarations
>                                                      
> LispWorks            66                1.0          1.6  
> Clisp                41                9.5          9.5   
> CMUCL          Got bored waiting       1.5          0.45  
> SBCL           Compiles everything     1.6          0.49  
> Python         Compiles everything    20
> gcc            No interactivity                     0.29

Using Psyco speeds things up somewhat. On my machine this test in Python 
without Psyco takes 14.31s, adding a call to psyco.full() reduces this to 
0.51s