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by dmorgan 4989 days ago
>Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1].

So, sounds like he's looking for something like v8.

if v8 can be 10-30 times faster than Python, for an equal or even more dynamic language, I don't see why Python should need to manual tune the things Guido describes in order to get some speed.