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Re: plugin interface for GDB


Paul Koning wrote:

Python is very fast.  It compiles to bytecode, and the execution
machinery seems to work quite well.  I have an application that runs
through very large files, doing some simple string matching.  It runs
at 50 MB/s or better, on a PC.

And in fact Python could be a lot faster. In a class project we did a proof of concept project to build a Python using the same approach as was used for SPITBOL, compiling to real executable code. Python programs ran 5-50 times faster than current interpretors. Maybe one day :-)


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