On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > will...@ufpa.br wrote: >> >> for a college project, I proposed to create a compiler for python. I've >> read something about it and maybe I saw that made a bad choice. I hear >> everyone's opinion respond. > > I don't want to discourage you if you really want to try, > but you need to be aware that you'd be taking on a very > challenging project -- at least if you intend the compiled > code to be substantially faster than interpretation. > > You should also check out what others have been doing in > this area: PyPy, Cython, Unladen Swallow. >
Except none of the things mentioned above is actually a "Python compiler". There are however good reasons why not and maybe that's worth checking. Cheers, fijal _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
