off-topic, "Compiler" technology

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:10:13PM +0200, Andreas Otto wrote:

>   1) I released a TCL "Compiler" which has a significant speedup

TCL != Python.

There already is a Python-to-C compiler that converts Python to C, but it
uses Python's existing datatypes, so it's more of a simple translation than
a real compilation pass. It's not that simple to make it more efficient and
keep Pythons' current extensibility and introspection abilities.

>   3) "Compiler" finds all of the syntax error in the source-code
>      at compile-time ( tested with large real-world TCL application's )

The Python bytecode compiler already does this.

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