From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...>
Date: 2004-04-24T07:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Psyco

At 06:07 24/04/2004 +0900, you wrote:
>Interesting stuff for Python, is any work like this being done in Ruby?
>   http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html
>Jim Moy

Impressive !

They could produce better code (less memory overhead) if Python's
syntax was expanded so that user could provide "hints" about what
deserves to be optimized. Today they suggest profiling as an
heuristic.

There was a time when C compilers had #pragma register, whereby
users worried about speed could help the compiler produce faster
code (when you need speed, you need it hard).

Better have some user directed optimizations than nothing.

Jean-Hugues