Python and Flaming Thunder

[bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com]

On 14 mai, 08:08, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 14, 12:51 pm, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > And your 8 by 8 cross compiler doesn't impress me at all, they're all
> > based on x86/IA-32 architecture which is quite similar, no PowerPC,
> > SPARC, ARM, no other CISC or RISC architecture. And your compiler is a
> > single language compiler instead of three dimensional compiler that
> > GCC is (cross platform, cross target platform, cross language).
>
> And to add, I also need to mention that Python doesn't need to be
> compiled at all,

No language needs compilation - it's an implementation problem, not a
language problem. Now all the Python's implementations I know do use
compilation (to byte-code).

> its py and pyo file is architecture independent.

True, but this is not strictly related to being compiled or not.