Robert Bradshaw, 30.12.2009 10:45: > 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.).
Ok, but that means you'd loose a lot of performance through the Python call overhead of ctypes. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
