pyvm -- faster python

[Peter Hansen]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
>>pyvm is a program which can run python 2.4 bytecode (the .pyc files).
>>A demo pre-release is available at:
>>	http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm/
> 
> could You tell us a bit more about Your motivation to create an
> alternative C-Python interpreter? There is AFAIK no such ambitious
> project that has ever survived. ..

If you check the URL more closely, you'll notice that this is a 
university site.

It seem likely this being done at least partly as a school project, 
which is certainly motivation enough for such a thing, *even* if it 
doesn't survive (since it will pay for itself in learning).

-Peter