Hi Stefan,
Ok, then in the case of a callback, the runtime could simply start with totally stupid code that packs the low-level arguments into Python arguments, attaches the low-level type information to them and then passes them into the function. The JIT should then see in its trace what types originally came in and optimise the argument packing away, shouldn't it?
no, don't think so: the JIT works by seeing code execute (the "tracing" part of it), so with the above recipe, there's still a chicken-and-egg problem. That is, in order to JIT, the code in the callback needs to be executed, but to execute, the trace entry point is needed, but for that, the JIT needs to run ... circle. :/ I was more thinking of an automated equivalent of the toolchain: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started-dev.html#id13 with annotations provided programmatically. But if that worked cleanly on pypy-c, I'd have expected separable "builtin" modules already. :) Best regards, Wim -- wlavrij...@lbl.gov -- +1 (510) 486 6411 -- www.lavrijsen.net _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev