On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> wrote: >> In particular, what restrictions does pypy impose on storage layout? >> For example, would it be able to handle dynamically-typed homogeneous >> lists, represented as a single pointer to a type object and an array >> of structs required to be of that type? > > RPython doesn't have support for this. If you go directly to the lltype > type system, then it's possible -- but our current JIT generator doesn't > support it. And also, if you write an interpreter using the lltype type > system directly, you loose the abstraction level of writing an > interpreter in RPython in the first place -- e.g. it would not be > translatable any more to the ootype type system, thus to Java or CLI. > > So all in all, PyPy could probably be subverted to do what you want, but > it's not really meant to (and we are a bit unlikely to give much > support, as far as I can see).
Thanks for the reply. It seems like targeting LLVM directly is the way to go for such projects for now. Geoffrey _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
