Python too slow?
Jaimy Azle
jazle at localhost.com
Fri Jan 11 00:56:31 EST 2008
"Ed Jensen" <ejensen at visi.com> wrote:
>
> Wow, this is pretty misleading.
>
> Java is, indeed, compiled to bytecode; however, modern JVMs typically
> compile the bytecode to native code and then execute the native code.
>
> CPython strictly interprets bytecode; it does not compile the
> bytecode to native code.
By the existence of psyco which has equal functionality, i think he is right
in term of terminology.
Salam,
-Jaimy.
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