2011/12/9 Alexander Golec <[email protected]>: > Hey all, > > Sorry to keep asking questions on the mailing list, but I've been doing my > semester research project on PyPy, and my deadline is beginning to loom... > > I have a question concerning what I think is a conflict between the RPython > coding guide and the 2005 EU paper. The paper states: > > Our approach goes further and analyses live programs in memory: the program > is allowed to contain fully dynamic sections, as long as these sections are > entered a bounded num- ber of times. For example, the source code of the > PyPy interpreter, which is itself written in this bounded-dynamism style, > makes extensive use of the fact that it is possible to build new classes at > any point in time -- not just during an initialisation phase -- as long as > the number of new classes is bounded. For example, interpreter/gateway.py > builds a custom wrapper class corresponding to each function that a > particular variable can reference. There is a finite num- ber of functions > in total, so this can only create a finite number of extra wrapper classes.
I'm not actually sure what this is referring to; it may have changed since 2005. > > While the coding guide says: > > > definitions > > run-time definition of classes or functions is not allowed. This is the truest statement currently. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
