On Dec 27, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Robert Bradshaw, 27.12.2009 05:38: >> On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >>> Be advised however that there's quite a few features not >>> available in pure Python mode, >> >> Though it may be interesting how far we could get with ctypes. > > Do you mean accelerating ctypes usage in Cython (somehow) or > reimplementing > (parts of) ctypes as compiler type declaration code? The latter could > require flow control analysis to work at all, although it might be > possible > to find a subset of ctypes that would just enable C type > declarations, and > then basically support that in "cython.declare()", without supporting > reference counted pointers etc.
No, I meant leveraging ctypes to give the "pure" mode a more complete emulation of the compiled version (calling external functions, integer overflow semantics, etc.). - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
