On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:45:39 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano, 01.04.2011 14:57: >> I suggest you check out the competitors: >> >> Shedskin is a Python to C++ compiler; Psyco is a JIT specialising >> compiler; Nuitka claims to be a C++ implementation that compiles to >> machine code; Berp claims to be a Haskell implementation that does the >> same; Compyler claims to be a native x86 assembly compiler; UnPython >> claims to be an experimental Python to C compiler. >> >> >> Of the six, as far as I know only Shedskin and Psyco are widely used. > > Erm, yes, right. If you want to exclude Cython, which arguably is the > only static Python compiler that actually has a large user base, then > those may really be the only two that are widely used. Except that Psyco > is certainly being used a lot more often than Shedskin, mainly because > it actually allows you to execute Python code.
My apologies, I thought about including Cython in the list, but my understanding of it is that it is a derivative of Pyrex, and used for writing C extensions in a Python-like language (Python + type annotations). We were talking about talking ordinary, unmodified Python code and compiling it to machine code, and I didn't think either Pyrex or Cython do that. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
