<p>Hi Todd,<br>
I'm not sure what your goals are, but my position is that if you write a translator backend and a JIT backend (please do) you can have fast (and improving) python on platform X. What were you hoping to target with your backend?<br>
Cheers,<br>
Dan </p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 3, 2010 10:43 AM, "Anderson, Todd A" <<a href="mailto:todd.a.anderson@intel.com">todd.a.anderson@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Sorry if this has been asked before. I did some
searching of the archive and didn’t see anything but I might have missed
it.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I am curious what percentage of real-world Python programs
in use are also RPython programs. I know that the FAQ says that the
translator is not intended for Python programs in general but only for the PyPy
interpreter itself but I’ve also seen a few mentions (on other sites) of attempting
to translate Python to C. I’ve been thinking about adding a backend
to the translator but would only want to do so if a significant amount of Python
programs could use it.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Todd</span></font></p>
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