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Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler

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John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> writes:
>     There's no easy way to speed up Python; that's been tried.
> It needs either a very, very elaborate JIT system, more complex
> than the ones for Java or Self, or some language restrictions.

Is it worse than Javascript?  Tracemonkey and its descendants produce
pretty fast code, I think.

> The main restriction I would impose is to provide a call that says:
> "OK, we're done with loading, initialization, and configuration.
> Now freeze the code."  At that moment, all the global
> analysis and compiling takes place.  This allows getting rid
> of the GIL and getting real performance out of multithread CPUs.

That's quite an interesting idea.  I do think a lot of production Python
code implicitly depends on the GIL and would need rework for multicore.
For example, code that expects "n += 1" to be atomic, because the
CPython bytecode interpreter won't switch threads in the middle of it.

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a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2011-03-31 18:33 -0400
  Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-04-01 02:05 +0200
  Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-03-31 20:52 -0400
  Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-01 12:57 +0000
    Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-04-01 17:45 +0200
      Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-02 10:04 +0000
        Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-04-02 12:30 +0200
          Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-02 12:05 -0700
            Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-02 14:32 -0700
            Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-04-02 19:12 -0500
  Re: a basic bytecode to machine code compiler Rouslan Korneychuk <rouslank@msn.com> - 2011-04-01 15:31 -0400

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