[pypy-dev] Re: getting rid of compile.c?

[Michael Hudson]

holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> i was wondering how/if to get rid of compile.c. ASFAIK
> it is currently needed for bootstrapping purposes. 
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to deliver precompiled bytecode 
> for the python compiler package and thus obsolete compile.c? 
> The bytecode isn't platform dependent so this seems sensible
> to me. 

That sounds possible, and you're always going to have issues like
this, but as long as you're hosting your work inside of CPython 2.3,
I wouldn't worry about it just yet...

(Doing this would make bytecode changes, erm, hairy, it seems to me).

Cheers,
M.

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