Martijn Faassen wrote: > > Yes, this one would be a major challenge. If you can crack it and the > PyPy interpreter offers another benefit (an obvious one is speed), you > will be in awesome position. If not, the other benefits will have to > weigh more strongly. This is definitely one to evolve slowly over time > if it's possible at all. I don't understand the C++ part. How many useful python modules use C++ ? For a start, my understanding is that python itself (interprter + stdlib) do not use C++ at all. Wrapping C++ in any language other than itself is a pain anyway :)
I am personally interested in two things: being able to use any pure python extension, and numerical code (I am a heavy user and sometimes contributor to numpy/scipy). I don't think I am alone in this niche. For example, someone on the numpy-discussion list asked about being able to use numpy from iron python: http://groups.google.com/group/c-extensions-for-ironpython/browse_thread/thread/88102263f8586fd0 what can be done about that ? Since I don't understand how pypy can use/intend to use c-based extensions (I thought ctypes was the way, but it looks like I misunderstood things), I am not sure what the possibilities are *now*. cheers, David _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
