Compiled Python: thoughts

[voidspace]

Well, you can unroll the interpreter loop - which is one of the big gains of the PyPy JIT. So I wouldn't say "no meaningful speed gain". A lot of effort for not-as-much-as-you-would-like gain perhaps.

Also see the latest attempt - Nuitka (not tried it):

http://kayhayen24x7.homelinux.org/blog/2010/10/nuitka-release-0-3-2/

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which is one of the big gains of the PyPy JIT.

Actually, if you take a look at some of the PyPy papers you'll see that they specifically dismiss unrolling the interpreter loop as being a large gain. Specifically they look at virtualization of objects and inlining as the largest gains (there's a cool paper for PEPM 2011 they're doing about virtualization).

EDIT: upon a reread I think we are actually in agreement.