Is a "real" C-Python possible?

[hunter.grubbs at gmail.com]

On Dec 9, 3:23 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <G62dnbBDl_Y0x8HanZ2dnUVZ_gudn... at comcast.com>,
>
> Jack <nos... at invalid.com> wrote:
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> >I understand that the standard Python distribution is considered
> >the C-Python. Howerver, the current C-Python is really a combination
> >of C and Python implementation. There are about 2000 Python files
> >included in the Windows version of Python distribution. I'm not sure
> >how much of the C-Python is implemented in C but I think the more
> >modules implemented in C, the better performance and lower memory
> >footprint it will get.
>
> Prove it.  ;-)
>
> Seriously, switching to more C code will cause development to bog down
> because Python is so much easier to write than C.
>
> >I wonder if it's possible to have a Python that's completely (or at
> >least for the most part) implemented in C, just like PHP - I think
> >this is where PHP gets its performance advantage. Or maybe I'm wrong
> >because the core modules that matter are already in C and those Python
> >files are really a think wrapper. Anyhow, if would be ideal if Python
> >has performance similar to Java, with both being interpreted languages.
>
> Could you provide some evidence that Python is slower than Java or PHP?
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> Aahz (a... at pythoncraft.com)           <*>        http://www.pythoncraft.com/
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> "Typing is cheap.  Thinking is expensive."  --Roy Smith

I'd like to provide some evidence that Python is *faster* than Java.
EVE online...emulate that in JAVA please.