???? Hardware-accellerated python ????

[Armin Steinhoff]

In article <DW4k5.118428$1h3.1883630 at news20.bellglobal.com>, "Olivier says...
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>If the dictionary lookups are hash-based, there isn't very much improvement
>to be done, as hash tables are usually O(1).  I'd say the best accelerator
>for Python is RAM.  You can buy more RAM (at your local computer hardware
>store) and add it to your computer and EVERYTHING will go faster!
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>The nature of an interpreted language (and many other features of python)
>makes it hard to put it on a chip (or to compile).  At least, that's how I
>understand it.  Maybe I'm wrong?

You are wrong ... tokens processed as machine code ist just faster.

Armin

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>Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III
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>"Francesco Bochicchio" <fbochicchio at galactica.it> wrote in message
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>> This is most probably a mid-summer night dream, but ...
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>> did anybody thought of any hardware feature which could
>> accellerate the execution of python programs ?
>> As I see it ( admittedly, without having read a single
>> line of Python's interpreter code ), the most performed
>> operation should be the lookup in the object (or module)
>> dictionary.
>> So any hardware or special instruction which accellerates
>> this, would do a lot of good to the execution of  python
>> programs ...
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>> Truly, it would raise portability issues, but ...
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