Python 3.0 unfit for serious work?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:19:26 -0800, John Nagle wrote:

>      Well, something faster really should take over.  It's a bit
> embarassing that the main implementation of Python is still a
> pure interpreter.  Even Javascript has a JIT compiler now.
> And it's tiny, under 1MB.

Python has a compiler, just like Java. That's where the .pyc files come
from.

You might also notice the built-in function "compile", which compiles text
strings into byte-code and puts it into a code object. The dis module may
also be of interest.



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Steven D'Aprano