[pypy-dev] is there incremental building for the translator?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/10/6 Philip Guo <pg at cs.stanford.edu>:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for another newbie question, but I'm wondering whether there is any
> sort of "Makefile"-like incremental building functionality for the PyPy
> translator.  I just ran:
>
> cd pypy/translator/goal
> python translate.py --opt=3 targetpypystandalone.py
>
> to create pypy-c, which works perfectly, but it took about an hour on my
> machine.  If I start hacking the PyPy source code, it seems like I have to
> do the full translation step each time I want to create a new pypy-c.  Is
> there any way around this?

No, because if you make a change then the whole program has to
retranslated to maintian invariants. What you can do, though, is speed
up the translation process by turning off optimization and using
--no-allworkingmodules.


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Regards,
Benjamin