[pypy-dev] Re: CFFI docs

2022-07-21 Thread Simon Cross
> I definitely must mention HPy, but yes, too early to recommend it for > production purposes. :D > As for Cython/CFFI/ctypes, I keep having the intuition that CFFI can (and > likely should) replace all uses of ctypes (I've never seen anything else in > the stdlib cause as many Python hard cra

[pypy-dev] Re: CFFI docs

2022-07-21 Thread Alex Martelli via pypy-dev
I definitely must *mention* HPy, but yes, too early to *recommend* it for production purposes. As for Cython/CFFI/ctypes, I keep having the intuition that CFFI can (and likely should) replace all uses of ctypes (I've never seen anything else in the stdlib cause as many Python hard crashes as ctype

[pypy-dev] Re: CFFI docs

2022-07-21 Thread Simon Cross
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 11:01 AM Phyo Arkar Lwin wrote: > How about HPY : https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy I think it is the best > route currently? HPy is hopefully the future replacement for the C API itself, but it's not something one can use in production *right now* so it's probably not

[pypy-dev] Re: CFFI docs

2022-07-21 Thread Phyo Arkar Lwin
How about HPY : https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy I think it is the best route currently? On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 6:39 AM Alex Martelli via pypy-dev < pypy-dev@python.org> wrote: > Hi Maciej, Armin, et al! > > Together with co-authors I've CC'd, I'm getting close to finishing the 4th > edition

[pypy-dev] Re: CFFI docs

2022-07-21 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Alex! On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 at 02:08, Alex Martelli via pypy-dev wrote: > credible examples, esp. one setting CFFI head-to-head against ctypes (but > comparisons with cython and the API would be fine too -- IF I could figure > out how to define completely new Python types in CFFI, which so far