Re: [Omaha.pm] FW: what lanague is your perl writen in?

["Miller, Scott L (Omaha Networks)" <Scott.L.Miller@hp.com>]

Hmm, as I understand it, and I'm using C as my reference point, once
you've got a compiler that successfully transforms C into something the
machine can execute, then you can start writing the compiler itself in
C.

I'd imagine it's the same type of process using python.

I'd personally think that there is no way python written in python will
be faster than python written in C, unless python is low level enough to
be able to compile programs directly into machine executable code.  I'm
just vaguely familiar with python, but I thought the whole point was
that it was much higher level...

-Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: omaha-pm-bounces@pm.org [mailto:omaha-pm-bounces@pm.org] On Behalf
Of Jay Hannah
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:04 PM
To: omaha-pm@pm.org
Cc: eli@criffield.net
Subject: [Omaha.pm] FW: what lanague is your perl writen in?


Huh... Anyone smart enough to explain this kind of bootstrapping stuff
to the group at a meeting? I'm certainly not...

j
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Criffield [mailto:eli@criffield.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:39 PM

PyPy

Python implemented in Python.

see: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html

According to some in the near future It'll be faster then the python
writen
in C and will take over as the most common python implementation.

Eli

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