[Cython] new FFI library for Python

Philip Herron redbrain at gcc.gnu.org
Mon Jun 18 17:26:09 CEST 2012


On 18 June 2012 15:12, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the PyPy folks have come up with a new FFI library (called cffi) for
> CPython (and eventually PyPy, obviously).
>
> http://cffi.readthedocs.org/
>
> It borrows from LuaJIT's FFI in that it parses C declarations at runtime.
> It then builds a C extension to access the external code, i.e. it requires
> a C compiler at runtime (when running in CPython).
>
> Just thought this might be interesting.
>
> Stefan
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I have been using libffi in my gccpy runtime wonder why they decided
to make a new one and not use libffi

--Phil


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