A modest proposal

[Stuart D. Gathman]

In article <7xg07fwn6l.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, "Paul Rubin"
<phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> wrote:

> "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> writes:
>> I have been putting my thoughts toward the elusive goal of making
>> python as fast as some LISP dialects.
> 
> The way to do that is with a compiler.  Speeding up access to globals
> may help a little, but probably not nearly as much.

Yes, but the globals need a data structure that is compiler friendly, but
keeps the dynamic semantics.  If the interpreter uses a similar model,
the compiler is a much more straightforward drop-in.

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