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Super-Fast Python Implementation for .NET and Mono

Posted by timothy on from the my-gosh-it's-full-of-stars dept.

Lansdowne writes "Jim Hugunin, the creator of Jython, has released an incredibly fast implementation of Python for Microsoft .NET and Mono called IronPython. Here's his PyCON 2004 presentation, including some benchmarks. He concludes: 'Python is an extremely dynamic language and this offers compelling evidence that other dynamic languages should be able to run well on this platform.'"

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  1. not released by the+quick+brown+fox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I usually take "released" to mean there is an implementation that is publicly available. Unless I am somehow just missing it, it doesn't seem to have been released yet...

  2. Re:Next Question by Chester+K · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is there anything the MONO team can do to improve support for dynamic languages?

    Mono, today, actually would support dynamic languages better than Microsoft's framework, since they implement the DynamicMethod class, which Microsoft fully documents in their Longhorn SDK documentation, but won't actually be released until .NET 2.0 comes out.

    The DynamicMethod class allows you to load a method into memory for JITting and execution, and preserves the ability for you to unload that code from memory, which you can't do with full-fledged Assemblies, even those generated via Reflection.Emit -- in .NET, once an Assembly is loaded into memory, it stays there until the AppDomain quits.

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