Re: [pypy-dev] Feedback on Graduate School Research Idea Using Pypy

2019-11-13 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
An experimental WebAssembly backend is definitively an interesting idea, but as you have realised, to get PyPy running in the browser, it's not necessarily needed, as you can compile C to WebAssembly instead. Sure, a native backend sounds nicer, but from my PoV the real performance questions l

Re: [pypy-dev] Feedback on Graduate School Research Idea Using Pypy

2019-11-12 Thread yun bao
I took a look at PyPyJS. I also spoke with some folks at Mozilla, and have become very interested in WebAssembly. I think having WebAssembly as a target for RPython would be very useful. Based on what I've learned recently, it should be possible to write an interpreter in RPython, translate it t

Re: [pypy-dev] Feedback on Graduate School Research Idea Using Pypy

2019-11-09 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
Maybe you should start by having a look at PyPyJS and then exploring WebAssembly: https://github.com/pypyjs/pypyjs Sent from my iPad > On 9. Nov 2019, at 03:40, yun bao wrote: > >  > Hi, > > I'm planning to go to grad school for a Master's. I'm thinking about > researching something relat

[pypy-dev] Feedback on Graduate School Research Idea Using Pypy

2019-11-08 Thread yun bao
Hi, I'm planning to go to grad school for a Master's. I'm thinking about researching something related to getting Python running in a web browser. All of the current implementations that allow you to do that either transpile Python to JavaScript ahead of time, or do some kind of on-the-fly conver