On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Joe Landman <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hmmm ... I thought it was an interpreter throughout. Perl and Perl6 are > compiled, Ruby is purely interpreted. Java is compiled (in the same way > Perl is). Pythons performance is much closer to Ruby than Java/Perl. > This is also incorrect, Ruby also runs in a VM. > Someone was working on an LLVM based static compiler for Python at one > point. > You are thinking of "Unladen Swallow" and it was not a static compiler. It was a VM that used LLVM for JIT. This project is dead and instead we have PyPy (see my previous post).
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