← Back to context Comment by scardine 11 years ago > Any weekend compiler project can be faster than CPython.Not true and not even funny. 3 comments scardine Reply 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. andrewchambers 11 years ago using llvm as the backend not hard to make a toy language which runs insanely fast with only integer operations. tempodox 11 years ago Exactly.
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.
andrewchambers 11 years ago using llvm as the backend not hard to make a toy language which runs insanely fast with only integer operations. tempodox 11 years ago Exactly.
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.
using llvm as the backend not hard to make a toy language which runs insanely fast with only integer operations.
Exactly.