I would be very, very careful about what people talk about. Even if they talk about RPython and speed, they really don't know what they're talking about. There are some reasons why they use python and not ocaml or haskell for their purposes. One of the reasons is that it's easy to write well-working python program. With rpython it's not that easy, and we don't explain it in talks, how hard it is. Even giving enough effort to the translation toolchain error reporting, type inference problems are always hard to read and debug. That's why I think RPython will never become a language of choice of most of the people (despite few guys who know what they're doing and why).
Also I (personally) think that good enough JIT would be a way better place to start writing speedy programs. You write it jit-friendly, you get speedup. From my POV maintaining all of parts required to use RPython as a general purpose language is a bit overkill, and people are really interested in parts which they yet don't know they're interested in. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
