plugin interface for GDB

[Robert Dewar]

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 :-)