From: Anders Bengtsson Date: 2002-10-17T01:23:32+09:00 Subject: Re: Psyco Justin Johnson wrote: > > Why would it not be possible to compile the AST to native code? That's > > what a traditional compiler does, after all. > You can generate bytecode but it's not going to give that much of a speed > increase, IMHO, because it would still have to be doing dynamic method > lookup etc. It may be faster to JIT-compile bytecode into native code than doing it directly from the AST. This is useful if you want to distribute bytecode instead of source. /Anders -- A n d e r s B e n g t s s o n | ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se Stockholm, Sweden | _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail resten av livet p� www.yahoo.se/mail Busenkelt!