Does the world need another v0.1 python compiler?

[John Nagle]

Grant Olson wrote:
> The basic approach I took was compiling to bytecode, and then
> transliterating python bytecode to x86 asm.  And it is working a little bit.

     An interesting option might be to generate the byte code used by
the SpiderMonkey engine in Mozilla.  That's used to handle both
Javascript in Firefox and ActionScript in Flash.  It has a just-in-time
compiler, so you get x86 machine code when you need it.
And the run time engine is tiny; there's a copy inside Flash, which is
only 2MB.

     That could be a way to get a faster Python without bringing excess
baggage.

				John Nagle