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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index aacb476..94afaff 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -396,12 +396,13 @@ calls into the Python run-time system, even for seemingly simple operations like ``x+1``. Several projects described in the Python newsgroup or at past `Python -conferences <http://python.org/community/workshops/>`_ have shown that this approach is feasible, -although the speedups reached so far are only modest (e.g. 2x). Jython uses the -same strategy for compiling to Java bytecode. (Jim Hugunin has demonstrated -that in combination with whole-program analysis, speedups of 1000x are feasible -for small demo programs. See the proceedings from the `1997 Python conference -<http://python.org/community/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/>`_ for more information.) +conferences <http://python.org/community/workshops/>`_ have shown that this +approach is feasible, although the speedups reached so far are only modest +(e.g. 2x). Jython uses the same strategy for compiling to Java bytecode. (Jim +Hugunin has demonstrated that in combination with whole-program analysis, +speedups of 1000x are feasible for small demo programs. See the proceedings +from the `1997 Python conference +<http://python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/>`_ for more information.) Internally, Python source code is always translated into a bytecode representation, and this bytecode is then executed by the Python virtual |