[Python-Dev] Re: native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

[Guido van Rossum]

> At 12:00 PM +0100 2/3/03, Christian Tismer wrote:
> >Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >...
> >
> >>If you want to bet, I'll put up $10 and a round of beer (or other 
> >>beverage of your choice) at OSCON 2004 for all the python labs & 
> >>zope folks that says parrot beats the current python interpreter 
> >>when running all the python benchmark suite programs (that don't 
> >>depend on extensions written in C, since we're shooting for pure 
> >>engine performance) from bytecode. Game?
> >
> >Do you mean the current Python interpreter of 2004?
> >That could be quite a different beast...
> 
> While it could be, that's unlikely. Still, that'd be part of the 
> ground rules we'd work out if someone takes me up on the challenge.

I'm in.  Given how low you set your stakes, I don't think you're very
confident, so I'd like to call your bluff. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)