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Comment by aidenn0

11 years ago

I'm not too worried, since a) that makes it about as fast as cpython and b) there is a lot of low-hanging fruit. There is work being done on integrating the Cleavir compiler which does a number of tricks. In particular escape analysis and lambda lifting should both help a lot on certain types of code.

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pjmlp  11 years ago

Any weekend compiler project can be faster than CPython.

  • Igglyboo  11 years ago

    Well CPython is an interpreter not a compiler so that's not really hard to do.

    • lispm  11 years ago

      Not exactly. CPython combines a compiler and a bytecode interpreter. It compiles to bytecode, which is then run by the bytecode interpreter.

  • scardine  11 years ago

    > Any weekend compiler project can be faster than CPython.

    Not true and not even funny.

    • 1ris  11 years ago

      To write a compiler (and not a interpreter) it's indeed almost impossible to reach the slowness of CPython. Especially because it's hard to create a complex language in just a weekend.