python simply not scaleable enough for google?

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Saturday 14 November 2009 18:42:07 Vincent Manis wrote:
> 
> 3. Very clearly CPython can be improved. I don't take most benchmarks
>  very seriously, but we know that CPython interprets bytecode, and
>  thus suffers relative to systems that compile into native code, and
>  likely to some other interpretative systems. (Lua has been
>  mentioned, and I recall looking at a presentation by the Lua guys on
>  why they chose a register rather than stack-based approach.)
> 

For those interested in exploring the possible performance benefits of 
Python on a register-based VM, there's Pynie 
(http://code.google.com/p/pynie/)... and there's even a JIT in the works 
for that (http://docs.parrot.org/parrot/1.0.0/html/docs/jit.pod.html)...


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