[C++-sig] Re: Refactoring, Compilation Speed, Pyste, Lua/Ruby/JavaScript...

[David Abrahams]

Dirk Gerrits <dirk at gerrits.homeip.net> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> b. The code generated by Boost.Python isn't equivalent to the above in
>>    any trivial sense. Almost everything in traditional 'C' extension
>>    building is geared towards initializing arrays of (function)
>>    pointers and constants which the Python core treats almost as a
>>    program, interpreting elements of the array and generating Python
>>    objects (e.g. callables) from them.  Boost.Python doesn't/can't
>>    take advantage of these mechanisms, so it builds the Python objects
>>    directly.  I guess what I'm saying is that the mapping is not very
>>    direct so I don't see a comparison with the 'C' API extension is
>>    going to help.
>
> Could just be me, but I think the above is exactly the kind of thing
> we'd want in such a document. :)
>
> I'd be happy to pitch in with the internal documentation after my
> exams btw. I'll have to dig deeper into Boost.Python to examine the
> Py_Finalize bug anyway.

I'll happily be argued down on this point by any number of volunteer
contributors ;-)

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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