Question about math.pi is mutable

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:00:37 +0000, Bartc writes:

>Not just my option. From this 2010 paper for example ('High performance 
>implementation of Python for CLI ...' by Antonio Cuni):
>
>"As a language, Python is very hard to implement efficiently: the 
>presence of highly dynamic constructs makes static analysis of programs 
>extremely difficult, thus preventing ahead of time (AOT) compilers to 
>generate efficient target code."

Recall that my friend Anto is discussing 'why my phd thesis was hard
stuff, as I did this for PyPy' and not 'Python would be better if it
were easier to write fast compilers for it'. :)

Anto loves the dynamic nature of python.  It just makes pypy hard.

Laura