Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: [Snip] > First let me note that I think the extcompiler is a promising idea. I > agree that the idea could lead to something generally useful. However: > The current implementation is not useful at all. It wasn't used > seriously by anybody. Richard tried to use it and he found that it > wasn't creating anything useful, since the resulting CPython > extensions weren't really any faster than just writing the stuff in > pure Python to begin with. > [Snip]
I don't have the experience, time or motivation to maintain the extcompiler so I completely understand if you need to remove it. But I do want to say that there are situations where it is useful and a speed up. My use of the extcompiler was making a mixed module that is a board representation and move generator for a board game (Arimaa). The resulting extcompiler module was approximately 10 times faster than the corresponding regular python module. So I think the ability to see speed increases with the current extcompiler is probably heavily dependent on how frequently the cpython to rpython interface has to be crossed. Janzert _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
