[pypy-dev] In search of references

[Paolo Giarrusso]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:30, Konrad Delong <konryd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently finishing up my master thesis. In it, I'd like to
> mention PyPy, but I think I need references to a couple of statements
> in order... well... not to lie :)
>
> So here it is:
>
> 1. PyPy is based on an approach first used in implementing
> Smalltalk-80 (the idea of implementing a dynamic language in its own
> subset, then statically analyzing and compiling the interpreter)
> 2. The main reason PyPy decided to implement GIL was for the c
> extensions to run unchanged.
Beyond what Carl wrote, no C extension ran unchanged until the
introduction of cpyext in 2010:
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-cpython-extension-modules-with.html

Bye
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student
http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/