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

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