[pypy-dev] PyPy in the benchmarks game - yes or no?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Isaac Gouy <igouy2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 4/6/11, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have another issue with ctypes & numpy. This is that
>> C implementations are allowed to use gcc-specific hacks and
>> non-standard libraries (apache malloc for gcbench). Why wouldn't
>> we be allowed to do the same then?
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> Would you describe C as "batteries included" ?
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nope, I would not. However, ctypes come included in standard python
distribution (unlike numpy or gmpy) so this is not really a valid
argument.

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