machinimist@[...].com wrote:

>  on their site they write:
>  
>  "Rumors have it that the secret goal is being faster-than-C which is
>  nonsense, isn't it?"
>  
>  python code will run faster than c? :)

Their goal is to get it to run fast. The 'faster-than-c' bit is sort of a
half-joking goal. C is often used as a sort of benchmark, but is often done
tonge-in-cheek given the history (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AsFastAsCee).
 
>  or does it mean python code will run faster than on cpython? or faster than
>  on cpython+psyco? what performance will theoretically be possible?

They are definaly shooting for something that will be much faster than
cpython or cpython+psyco. The psyco developer is one of the core group
working on pypy and they are integrating pysco like optimizations into pypy
allowing it to do a lot more than pysco can do for cpython.

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