[pypy-dev] Question on the future of RPython

[horace grant]

i just had a (probably) silly idea. :)

if some people like rpython so much, how about writing a rpython
interpreter in rpython? wouldn't it be much easier for the jit to
optimize rpython code? couldn't jitted rpython code theoretically be
as fast as a program that got compiled to c from rpython?

hm... but i wonder if this would make sense at all. maybe if you ran
rpython code with pypy-c-jit, it already could be jitted as well as
with a special rpython interpreter? ...if there were a special rpython
interpreter, would the current jit generator have to be changed to
take advantage of the more simple language?

just curious...


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Armin Rigo, 07.09.2010 10:57:
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Saravanan Shanmugham
>>> Is there a wish list of RPython enhancements somewhere that the
>>> PyPy team might be considering?
>>> Stuff that would benefit RPython users in general.
>>
>> Again, feel free to make a fork or a branch of PyPy and try to develop
>> a version of RPython that is more suited to writing general programs
>> in.
>
> In that case, I suggest working on Shedskin or Cython instead.
>
> Stefan
>
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