[Jython-users] Python to native compilation via java?

[VanL <va...@li...>]

Hello,

(Cross-posted by request from the python-tutor mailing list)

I was reading about the new gcc 3.0 release, and something that caught 
my eye:

"""
The GNU Compiler for the Java Programming Language
What is GCJ?

GCJ is a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java 
Programming Language. It can compile:

    * Java source code directly to native machine code,
    * Java source code to Java bytecode (class files),
    * and Java bytecode to native machine code.

Compiled applications are linked with the GCJ runtime, libgcj, which 
provides the core class libraries, a garbage collector, and a bytecode 
interpreter. libgcj can dynamically load and interpret class files, 
resulting in mixed compiled/interpreted applications.
"""

Would code get any significant speedup by going jython -> .class files 
-> native? Is it possible?  And does jython compile under gcj?

Thanks,

Van