[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:00:45 +1200 (NZST)
"Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU>:
> But then, I've always thought that one of the problems with
> trying to optimize Python was that the VM was too high level.
No, the problem is that Python is just too darn dynamic!
This is a feature of the language, not just the VM.
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