>> Something I snipped prematurely Yes, I'm very happy that Unladen Swallow say they might make another charge on the GIL, I hope they succeed.
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> When PyPy runs as fast as CPython, perhaps PyPy can start >>> supporting the >>> Cython type annotations (at least the pure Python mode ones); Jython >>> could support the same annotations in time, and so on. >> >> Let's wait and see, but I doubt that there will be a major interest in >> doing that. I actually find it more important for Cython to gain type >> inference mechanisms that lift the requirement for defining types >> in the >> first place, at least for standard use cases. > > +1, inference is something else that would be really nice to finally > have. There was enough interest, however, to add function signature > type annotations. I was thinking of this at a slightly broader level. For instance, I don't see automatic inference for doing vtable dispatches rather than dict lookups any time soon -- yet they are critical for writing fast data structures. Cython provides vtable dispatches, etc., which is outside of the goal of the other projects. (And that's a major part of "typing"). Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
