[pypy-dev] Research with PyPy Translation Toolchain

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Adam R. Smith <mradamsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any documentation available on what RPython consists of? I can't
> seem to find a manual.

http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/coding-guide.html#id1

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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Adam R. Smith <smith195 at illinois.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > I am a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois. I am interested in
>> > learning more about how to use the PyPy Translation Toolchain as part of
>> > a
>> > research project. We would like to write some code in Python and
>> > generate C
>> > code from that. When using the Translation Toolchain, a *.c source file
>> > is
>> > generated and then compiled with GCC. How do I find where the source
>> > files
>> > are stored before GCC is called? I want to interface with those *.c
>> > files.
>> >
>> > Adam Smith
>> > Ph.D. Candidate
>> > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>
>> Hi Adam
>>
>> Note that PyPy translation toolchain does not compile Python. It
>> compiles RPython, which is a restricted subset of Python. However, we
>> have a Python interpreter written in rPython.
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