[viff-devel] Shed Skin

[Martin Geisler]

Hi,

I just saw this on Planet Python:

  Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but
  implicitly statically typed Python programs into optimized C++. It
  can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules, that can be
  imported and used from larger Python programs.

  Besides the typing restriction, programs cannot freely use the
  Python standard library (although about 17 common modules, such as
  random and re, are currently supported). Also, not all Python
  features, such as nested functions and variable numbers of
  arguments, are supported.

  For a set of 30 non-trivial test programs (at about 9,000 lines in
  total; see the ss-progs-0.1.tgz download), measurements show a
  typical speedup of 2-40 times over Psyco, and 2-220 times over
  CPython. Because Shed Skin is still in an early stage of
  development, however, many other programs will not compile
  out-of-the-box.

Homepage:

  http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

I wonder how it compares to something like Cython.

-- 
Martin Geisler