Re: [Python-Dev] V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish and Python

2009-01-27 Thread Mart Sõmermaa
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > Hi Mart, > > This is a better discussion for the python-ideas list. That being > said, there was a thread discussing this last year, see: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-October/083176.html > > -jesse > Indeed, sorry. In

Re: [Python-Dev] V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish and Python

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Holden
Jesse Noller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mart Sõmermaa wrote: >> As most of you know there's constant struggle on the JavaScript front to get >> even faster performance out of interpreters. >> V8, TraceMonkey and SquirrelFish have brought novel ideas to interpreter >> design, wouldn'

Re: [Python-Dev] V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish and Python

2009-01-27 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Mart Sõmermaa wrote: > As most of you know there's constant struggle on the JavaScript front to get > even faster performance out of interpreters. > V8, TraceMonkey and SquirrelFish have brought novel ideas to interpreter > design, wouldn't it make sense to reap th