[pypy-dev] PyPy JIT & C extensions

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Andrew Francis <andrewfr_ice at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A few days ago, I floated this idea in the #pypy IRC channel. Why can't we take a JITed pypy,
>> install the greenlet package, run it and see what happens?
>
> You will just get strange segfaults and no way to understand from
> outside where they come from.  I can give some more details about
> them, but I guess it would not be too helpful.  In summary, C
> extension modules have a chance to work with PyPy as long as they
> don't play strange tricks.
>

Hey.

I had a private email exchange with Andrew and I think what he wants
to achieve is a working greenlet module for PyPy. Is a current C
version a good start, or something else would be a good start?

Cheers,
fijal

>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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