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Google threw money at the problem and that didn't help. Lookup the history behind the "Unladen Swallow" project.
by davvid 6y ago
Google threw money at the problem and that didn't help. Lookup the history behind the "Unladen Swallow" project.
- pansa2 6y ago> Google threw money at the problem Not really, especially compared to the amount of money they threw at JavaScript. IIRC Unladen Swallow was just a couple of interns.
- jashmatthews 6y agoUnladen Swallow wasn’t actually a serious attempt like V8 or anything and a large part of why it failed was that LLVM wasn’t ready and even when it was, it was ill suited to compiling a highly dynamic language like Python.