Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fact 1: CPython compiles source code to byte-code. > fact 2: CPython executes this byte-code. > fact 3: Sun's JDK compiles source code to byte-code. > fact 4: Sun's JDK executes this byte-code. > > Care to prove me wrong on any of these points ? Don't bother: you can't. > So my first assertion that "CPython is compiled to byte-code, which is > then executed by a VM" is true, and since the same assertion also stands > for Java (ie: sun's JDK), then the "just like" qualifier is true too. > Period.
#2 and #4 are wrong (or, at best, misleading). Here, I'll fix them for you: Fact 2: CPython interprets the bytecode. Fact 4: Sun's JVM does some interpretation of the bytecode, but also compiles some of the bytecode to native code and executes the resulting native code. These distinctions can be important and it's intellectually dishonest to gloss over them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
