[pypy-commit] pypy default: add a cpyext-related project.

[fijal]

Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: 
Changeset: r54040:bf0eeb2df227
Date: 2012-03-28 10:52 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/bf0eeb2df227/

Log:	add a cpyext-related project.

diff --git a/pypy/doc/project-ideas.rst b/pypy/doc/project-ideas.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/project-ideas.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/project-ideas.rst
@@ -149,6 +149,22 @@
 exported.  This would give us a one-size-fits-all generic .so file to be
 imported by any application that wants to load .so files :-)
 
+Optimising cpyext (CPython C-API compatibility layer)
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+A lot of work has gone into PyPy's implementation of CPython's C-API over
+the last years to let it reach a practical level of compatibility, so that
+C extensions for CPython work on PyPy without major rewrites. However,
+there are still many edges and corner cases where it misbehaves, and it has
+not received any substantial optimisation so far.
+
+The objective of this project is to fix bugs in cpyext and to optimise
+several performance critical parts of it, such as the reference counting
+support and other heavily used C-API functions. The net result would be to
+have CPython extensions run much faster on PyPy than they currently do, or
+to make them work at all if they currently don't. A part of this work would
+be to get cpyext into a shape where it supports running Cython generated
+extensions.
 
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