[pypy-dev] The JVM backend and Jython

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/03/11 21:57, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>
>>> Ok, so if Ademan tells me that he's not going to work on the ootype-virtualref
>>> branch, I'll try to finish the work so you can start playing with it.
>>
>> Note to frank: this is kind of cool but only needed for the JIT,
>> otherwise it's a normal reference.
>
> well, no. Virtualrefs were introduced for the JIT, but they also need to be
> supported by normal backends.  This is why translation is broken at the moment.
>
> It is true that the implementation is straightforward, though (I suppose this
> is what you meant originally :-))

Sure.

I was mostly saying "the complex part of the implementation for ootype
can be ommited if we skip the JIT part".

>
> ciao,
> Anto
>