From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11788 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2007 23:00:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 11777 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2007 23:00:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:00:56 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03A548CCA9; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:00:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17952-01-7; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:00:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (nile.gnat.com [205.232.38.5]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F22748CC71; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:00:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46294628.8010009@adacore.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Koning CC: drow@false.org, bauerman@br.ibm.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: plugin interface for GDB References: <1177098228.20179.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070420200004.GB28401@caradoc.them.org> <1177104071.17757.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070420215513.GA1434@caradoc.them.org> <17961.14337.688989.413158@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <17961.14337.688989.413158@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 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 :-)