"Grant Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> We use Pyrex to statically compile dynamically generated
>> source code. The compiled code is then imported into the
>> process that generated the code. But surely, this still means
>> we are statically compiling things.
>
> Let me guess, this doesn't work on Windows yet? ;-)
No, it does. We have Christian to beat us up when we break that :)
>> Let me note that with 'dynamic' we usually mean even more dynamic
>> than your pyasm, in that you could assemble and run inline fragments
>> of machine code at runtime (for implementing e.g. Psyco in PyPy).
>
> There is an api in pyasm that you can use to do this. You don't need to
> just pass in a monolithic string like I did in the example. That was just
> easier for most people to understand. There is a little documentation on
> this and it will be expanded in the next release. I'm also toying with the
> notion of something similar to a main() function that gets executed
> automatically at runtime instead of forcing you to bind to function names
> and calling the functions.
>
> That is, unless you're talking about something like:
>
> def foo(a,b):
> print a + b
> MOV EBX, [EBP-4]
> print EBX
>
> That I can't do. I would obviously have to fork CPython to implement
> something like that, and that's not something I'm personally interested in.
> I'm not even sure if this would make sense in an optimized build.
Uh, no, neither of these things.
The way psyco works is that when "compiling" a function like:
def f(a):
return 1 + 2 + a
it only compiles as far as it can until it needs to know the type of
a; then it stops and "waits" until the function is actually called,
when obviously this is an easy question to answer, then compiles a bit
more, and so on. If the function is called again with a different
type of argument, a different version of the code is compiled. Etc.
People don't generally expect this sort of thing when they design
their APIs :)
Cheers,
mwh
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