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How Badly will IronMonkey Hurt Performance?

'Someone' (couldn't find a name - sorry) posts a blog entry arguing that the implementation strategy for IronPython on Tamarin (IronMonkey) must be slow: How Badly Will IronMonkey Hurt Performance? Unsurprisingly, I'm not convinced: My Response In a further non-surprise, the original poster is not convinced by my response: Perspective on Python Performance

IronMonkey: IronPython on Tamarin

Brendan Eich has announced three new Mozilla projects: Brendan's Roadmap: New Projects These are 'Action Monkey', 'Screaming Monkey' and 'Iron Monkey'. They are all to do with integrating 'Tamarin' (the bytecode JIT VM that Mozilla was 'given' by Adobe) into Firefox. All three projects are led by experienced Pythonistas. 'Iron Monkey' is led by Seo Sanghyeon, and involves bringing IronPython to run on Tamarin! Tamarin:IronMonkey