[Cython] Cython backend aiming PyPy Status

[Stefan Behnel]

Romain Guillebert, 06.07.2011 05:10:
> I created a blog post summarizing what I've done the last few weeks on
> the Cython backend aiming PyPy.
>
> It's located at this URL :
> http://rguillebert.blogspot.com/2011/07/cython-backend-aiming-pypy-status.html

Congrats, that sounds pretty usable already.

Instead of stepping directly into writing dedicated tests for your existing 
code, you should first try to get Cython's normal test suite running. That 
will give you a huge set of tests right away.

One remark for this list: given that you simply reuse the type analysis 
steps in the ctypes pipeline (which is totally the right thing to do!), 
Cython should be careful what it does during these steps. Traditionally 
(and especially prehistorically), the type analysis step has been a point 
where the tree is changed in ways that didn't quite fit anywhere else. From 
now on, we need to take care not to break the ctypes backend by applying 
C-only tree changes here.

Another important reason for getting the test suite to run, so that we can 
hand the regression testing over to Jenkins.

Stefan