[Chicago] Anyone heard of this?

[Matt Bone]

As a historical curiosity, this isn't the first time someone has
compiled python to register based VM. Pynie
(https://bitbucket.org/allison/pynie) compiled python to parrot (the
perl 6 vm) which is also register based. It looks like pynie might be
on life support these days though.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Japhy Bartlett <japhy at pearachute.com> wrote:
> There's better info on it at in their github
> (https://github.com/rjpower/falcon), and it looks like it's still under
> heavy development, but it's interesting!  Someone try it out and give us
> some independent benchmarks.
>
> - Japhy
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>>
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>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Brian Herman <brianherman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Python is a popular dynamic language with a large part of its appeal
>>> coming from powerful libraries and extension modules. These augment the
>>> language and make it a productive environment for a wide variety of tasks,
>>> ranging from web development (Django) to numerical analysis (NumPy).
>>> Unfortunately, Python's performance is quite poor when compared to modern
>>> implementations of languages such as Lua and JavaScript. [ CITATION NEEDED
>>> <--- as they say in Wikipedia ]
>>
>>
>> I'd say a footnote to a bunch of benchmark studies right here would do
>> this advertisement a world of good.
>>
>> Python is in a performance niche that's true, and can't be seen as a race
>> horse in all races.
>>
>> Actually closer to the truth is Python-the-jockey rides atop several
>> horses (VMs) rather successfully, with more horses to come most probably.
>>
>> But why are we talking about Lua in particular and not Erlang?   Weird.
>>
>> Kirby
>> PPUG
>> (Python's Portland User Group)
>>
>> (URL re our latest meeting:
>> http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2013/08/ppug-2013813.html
>> -- adding picture now...
>> )
>>
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