[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm wondering if someone can explain to me please what it is about > Python that is so different from Lisp that it can't be compiled into > something as fast as compiled Lisp? From this above website and > others, I've learned that compiled Lisp can be nearly as fast as C/C++, > so I don't understand why Python can't also eventually be as efficient? > Is there some *specific* basic reason it's tough?
The issues of compiling Python and compiling Lisp are similar. Lisp implementers tend to care about performance more, so Lisp tends to be compiled. There's a Python compiler called Psyco which can be used with CPython and which will be part of PyPy. I'd expect its output code to be comparable to compiled Lisp code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
