Python-to-C++ Compiler

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 15, 2006 @05:12AM from the calibrate-your-scales dept.

Mark Dufour writes "Shed Skin is an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler. It accepts pure, but implicitly statically typed, Python programs, and generates optimized C++ code. This means that, in combination with a C++ compiler, it allows for translation of pure Python programs into highly efficient machine language. For a set of 16 non-trivial test programs, measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 over Psyco, about 12 on average, and 2-220 over CPython, about 45 on average. Shed Skin also outputs annotated source code."

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2-40 what? by Rorian · 2006-06-15 05:25 · Score: 0, Redundant

2x to 40x speedup? 2% to 40%? 2 to 40 seconds?

Standardised units are your friend.

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1. Re:2-40 what? by Rorian · 2006-06-15 05:35 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  I'm sure it is, but I hate it when people don't specify :(
  
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