[pypy-svn] r40555 - pypy/dist/pypy/doc

arigo at codespeak.net arigo at codespeak.net
Thu Mar 15 20:14:02 CET 2007


Author: arigo
Date: Thu Mar 15 20:14:00 2007
New Revision: 40555

Modified:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.txt
Log:
Another paragraph on this FAQ entry, thanks xorAxAx (and pushed
originally by Christian).



Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/dist/pypy/doc/faq.txt	Thu Mar 15 20:14:00 2007
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@
 many guards that allow it to fall back to the latter if needed.  That
 would be a wholly different project than PyPy, though.
 
+What PyPy contains is, on the one hand, an non-soft static type
+inferencer for RPython, which is a sublanguage that we defined just so
+that it's possible and not too hard to do that; and on the other hand,
+for the full Python language, we have an interpreter, and a JIT
+generator which can produce a Just-In-Time Compiler from the
+interpreter.  The resulting JIT works for the full Python language in a
+way that doesn't need type inference at all.
+
 .. [BRETT] Brett Cannon,
            Localized Type Inference of Atomic Types in Python,
            http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/thesis.pdf



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