Psyco == tracing optimization?

[Paddy]

On Aug 24, 8:11 am, Fredrik Lundh <fred... at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Banibrata Dutta wrote:
> > AFAIK, the same logic used in runtime optimization of several other
> > dynamic languages or shell-scripting languages (including Perl), for
> > quite a while.
>
> Trace trees are widely used?  Got any references for that?
>
> </F>

I too feel that if Perl had such optimizations as Psyco gives Python
then they would shout about it.

I wonder about the new term and if it fits in the same 'box' as what
Psyco does, for example, who was aware of whose work?

- Paddy.