Re:So you want to write a fast Python?
by kingkilr on Sunday July 10, 2011 @10:59PM
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Yes, compile times are rather long, about 40 minutes for the full interpreter on a recent, fairly good, laptop. On the other hand you don't need to do a compile all that frequently, because all the code is testable by executing directly atop another Python.
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So you develop the interpreter by interpreting it on itself before compiling it to itself by itself.
Uh...
You might have some fun reading about the Futamura projections :)