Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'pypy': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'oh,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'runtime': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'subject:create': 0.09; 'compilation,': 0.16; 'from:addr:behnel.de': 0.16; 'from:addr:stefan_ml': 0.16; 'from:name:stefan behnel': 0.16; 'notably': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'stefan': 0.17; 'url:moin': 0.17; 'specifically': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'url:wiki': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'subject:like': 0.29; 'that.': 0.30; 'url:python': 0.32; 'received:84': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'list': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'most': 0.61; 'received:arcor-ip.net': 0.84; 'received:pools.arcor-ip.net': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Stefan Behnel Subject: Re: Why is it impossible to create a compiler than can compile Python to machinecode like C? Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:17:19 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-056-001-058.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362086259 news.xs4all.nl 6841 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36024 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:40182 Stefan Behnel, 28.02.2013 22:03: > there are also a couple of projects that do > dynamic runtime compilation, most notably PyPy and Numba. Oh, and HotPy, I keep forgetting about that. > You may want to take a look at the Python implementations page, > specifically the list of Python compilers: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonImplementations#Compilers Stefan