sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> writes: > Python on a better VM (LuaJIT, Parrot, LLVM, several > JavaScript) will easily outperform CPython by orders of magnitide.
Maybe Python semantics make it more difficult to optimize than those other languages. For example, in a = foo.bar(1) b = muggle() c = foo.bar(2) it is not ok to cache the value of foo.bar after the first assignment. Maybe the second one goes and modifies it through foo.__dict__ . See "Children of a Lesser Python" (linked in another post, or websearch) for discussion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
