On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:30, Konrad Delong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently finishing up my master thesis. In it, I'd like to > mention PyPy, but I think I need references to a couple of statements > in order... well... not to lie :) > > So here it is: > > 1. PyPy is based on an approach first used in implementing > Smalltalk-80 (the idea of implementing a dynamic language in its own > subset, then statically analyzing and compiling the interpreter) > 2. The main reason PyPy decided to implement GIL was for the c > extensions to run unchanged. Beyond what Carl wrote, no C extension ran unchanged until the introduction of cpyext in 2010: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension-modules-with.html
Bye -- Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
