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From: Nicolas Neuss on 6 Feb 2010 03:31
Helmut Eller <eller.helmut(a)gmail.com> writes:

> * Nicolas Neuss [2010-02-05 19:09+0100] writes:
>
>>> Possibly, but I think that CL's current speed advantage will melt
>>> away when Python switches to JIT compilers.
>>
>> Is this somehow due in near future?
>
> Google is sponsoring the Unladen Swallow project and employs Guido van
> Rossum.

Thanks, that's interesting.

> I think they would have the resources to do it; at least for
> x86.

Surely. Again I am amazed how much resources are consumed in tasks
which would be completely unnecessary with Common Lisp (which has had
native code compilation and interactivity together for about 30 years).

>> And I'm also not sure that it really will be able to compete with CL
>> even then. A large speed jump with CL comes when inserting type
>> declarations locally, and IIUC Python would have to invent a means
>> for that first.
>
> Type declarations might not be as important if the JIT compiler
> infrastructure collects execution profiles like JVMs do.

You are right. I also noticed this immediately after sending my post.

Nicolas

> Not sure if they are that ambitious, though.
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