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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
Cc: drow@false.org,  bauerman@br.ibm.com,  gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: plugin interface for GDB
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46294628.8010009@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17961.14337.688989.413158@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Paul Koning wrote:

> Python is very fast.  It compiles to bytecode, and the execution
> machinery seems to work quite well.  I have an application that runs
> through very large files, doing some simple string matching.  It runs
> at 50 MB/s or better, on a PC.

And in fact Python could be a lot faster. In a class project we did
a proof of concept project to build a Python using the same approach
as was used for SPITBOL, compiling to real executable code. Python
programs ran 5-50 times faster than current interpretors. Maybe one
day :-)


      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-20 19:44 Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-04-20 19:57 ` Brian Dessent
2007-04-20 21:39   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-04-20 20:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-20 21:21   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-04-20 21:55     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-20 22:01       ` Paul Koning
2007-04-20 23:00         ` Robert Dewar [this message]

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