On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 4:52 AM Mr Flibble <flib...@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> wrote: > > On 11/02/2021 15:13, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:36 PM Mr Flibble > > <flib...@i42.removethisbit.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> I am starting work on creating a new Python implementation from scratch > >> using "neos" my universal compiler that can compile any programming > >> language. > > > > Is it your intention to support all of Python's syntax and semantics, > > Yes. > > > or is this an unrelated language with mandatory strict type tags and a > > severely restricted set of data types? For instance, can your neos > > compile this code? > > No. The neos universal compiler itself is language agnostic: a pre-requisite > for the requirement to be able to compile any programming language. >
Okay, cool, then I misunderstood the point of neoscript (I thought you would compile Python to neoscript and then neoscript to binary). As Dan says, go for it, give it a go. I think it'll give you a very good demonstration of how CPython, and especially PyPy, are actually highly performant languages :) > You are timing the arithmetic library rather than the interpreter. Hmm, I didn't call on any library functions. The crucial and time-consuming operations were entirely implemented using operators on constants. (I also deliberately reused the name "time" in multiple ways, just to stress-test anything that tries to restrict data types.) In any case, it's not Python if it can't handle arbitrarily large numbers. Python is an excellent language for mathematics. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
