Python is slow

[Eric Brunel]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:48:56 +0200, <//phr.cx at NOSPAM.invalid>> wrote:

> "inhahe" <inhahe at gmail.com> writes:
>> planets are spherical (all implementations of Python are not natively
>> compiled (and you said for whatever definition)), and b) It's a far cry  
>> to
>> imagine a planet coming into being that's not spherical (a language as
>> dynamic as Python, or most other scripting languages, would be either
>> extremely difficult or impossible to make a native compiler for).
>
> There are native Python compilers, see psyco and pypy.

... and C/C++ interpreters; see:
http://root.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ROOT/CINT
-- 
python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in  
'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])"