pyvm -- faster python

[Armin Steinhoff]

Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
> Kay Schluehr wrote:
> 
>>
>> Yes. What we are seeking for and this may be the meaning of Armins
>> intentiously provocative statement about the speed of running HLLs is a
>> successor of the C-language and not just another VM interpreter that is
>> written in C and limits all efforts to extend it in a flexible and
>> OO-manner. Python is just the most promising dynamic OO-language to
>> follow this target.
> 
> 
> Bytecode engine is the best method for dynamic code execution
> ("exec", eval, etc).  A low level OOP language would be very suitable
> for a python VM.
> 
> pyvm has that. A big part of it is written in "lightweight C++" [1].

Realy ?  I have downloaded the lwc distribution and checked it out.
It was a surprise that none of the examples are working.
I'm using SuSE 9.0 with  gcc 3.3.1 ...

Is there a working version of lwc ???

Regards

   Armin




> That makes it less portable as the lwc preprocessor is using GNU-C
> extensions.  However, it's the same extensions also used by the linux
> kernel and AFAIK the intel compiler supports them too.
> 
> So probably the bigger "competitor" of pyvm is boost-python.
> And that's one reason the release of the source is stalled until it
> gets better.
> 
> 
> Stelios
> 
> [1] http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/lwc/