CPython on the Web

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Tue Jan 4 03:02:47 EST 2011


On 1/3/2011 11:13 PM, azakai wrote:
> On Jan 3, 10:11 pm, John Nagle<na... at animats.com>  wrote:
>> On 1/1/2011 11:26 PM, azakai wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I hope this will be interesting to people here: CPython running
>>> on the web,
>>
>>> http://syntensity.com/static/python.html
>>
>>> That isn't a new implementation of Python, but rather CPython 2.7.1,
>>> compiled from C to JavaScript using Emscripten and LLVM. For more
>>> details on the conversion process, seehttp://emscripten.org
>>
>>      It's a cute hack, but it's about 1000 times slower than CPython.

>
> Yes, as I said, "the code isn't optimized (so
> don't expect good performance)" :)
>
> It can get much faster with more work.

     Yea, right.

     You're three deep in interpreters.  Performance is going
to suck.

					John Nagle




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