Python/pyobjC Apps on iPhone now a possibility?

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Tue Jul 7 13:38:59 EDT 2009


>>>>> aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) (A) wrote:

>A> In article <85ljn0ej4h.fsf at agentultra.com>,
>A> J Kenneth King  <james at agentultra.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The iPhone is running on what? A 400Mhz ARM processor? Resources on the
>>> device are already limited; running your program on top of an embedded
>>> Python interpreter would only be adding pressure to the constraints;
>>> even if it was an optimized interpreter.

>A> <raised eyebrow>  Ten years ago, a 400MHz ARM processor would have been
>A> fast, and it would have been running Python 1.5.2.

My first Python experience at home was on a 40MHz 80486 (Python 1.5.2 I
think). It was a bit slow :=(
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