Re: [pypy-dev] Percentage Python as RPython.
Todd, I think you want a frontend, not a backend. The frontend would take in normal Python and convert it to RPython. RPython seems to have infinite meta-programming possibilities, so its just a matter of how hard would it be to make the meta frontend. Probably too hard since python is so dynamic, but maybe its possible with a new subset of Python halfway to RPython, developers would then only have to port to Not-So-Restricted-Python, and then the frontend does the final job of converting to RPython. -brett
Hi Hart, On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 06:04:00PM -0700, Hart's Antler wrote:
I think you want a frontend, not a backend. The frontend would take in normal Python and convert it to RPython.
I think the chances of getting this to work are "0 - 0.5 %", as per fijal's previous excellent answer. Writing in RPython requires a different state of mind than writing in normal Python (unless, maybe, you are a Java programmer that writes Java with the Python syntax; for that case, I would suggest that writing in Java in the first place is just as easy). A bientot, Armin.
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