On 3 February 2016 at 03:52, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > Fifth, if we manage to show that a C API can easily be added to CPython to > make a JIT something that can simply be plugged in and be useful, then we > will also have a basic JIT framework for people to use. As I said, our use > of CoreCLR is just for ease of development. There is no reason we couldn't > use ChakraCore, v8, LLVM, etc. But since all of these JIT compilers would > need to know how to handle CPython bytecode, we have tried to design a > framework where JIT compilers just need a wrapper to handle code emission > and our framework that we are building will handle driving the code emission > (e.g., the wrapper needs to know how to emit add_integer(), but our > framework handles when to have to do that).
That could also be really interesting in the context of pymetabiosis [1] if it meant that PyPy could still at least partially JIT the Python code running on the CPython side of the boundary. Cheers, Nick. [1] https://github.com/rguillebert/pymetabiosis -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
