[pypy-dev] Re: Next step: gen???.py

[Christian Tismer]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>The question is which line of work to focus on right now.  All of
>>these back-ends are interesting and worthwhile in the long run but
>>we need to select a first one.  There are basically 4 reasonable
>>options:
>>
>>* Enhance genc.py.
> 
> 
>>* Enhance genc.py using the C++ facility of function overloading for
>>simplicity 
> 
> 
>>* Go for genllvm.py.
> 
> 
>>* genjava.py could be another option.
> 
> 
> A question that springs to mind is: How much work do these various
> options share?  (It seems like your typer.py is exactly this kind of
> work).
> 
> Also, I think that the benefits of function overloading are pretty
> minor for the cost of demanding a c++ compiler (although you could
> probably use cfront and tcc for that :).

125 % seconded.

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