[Chicago] Anyone heard of this?

[Skip Montanaro]

There's nothing new under the sun:

http://computer-programming-forum.com/56-python/adf7f03a82faf8bb.htm

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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Matt Bone <thatmattbone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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