ANN: Shed Skin 0.2, an experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler

[Terry Reedy]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
>
> I tried it on a program I wrote to solve a puzzle (Rush Hour).
> (Actually it solves the meta-puzzle - trying to make the hardest
> possible Rush Hour puzzle.)
> 
> After a bit of twiddling (remove psyco and profiling) I got it to
> start compiling, but unfortunately it compiled for about an hour (in
> iterative type analysis..) used up 600 MB of RAM printing an '*' every
> 10 minutes or so then gave an error message and gave up.
> 
> Unfortunately I shut the window by accident, but the error message was
> something about not being able to resolve types I think with a list of
> 20 or so unresolved types.
> 
> Can you give a hint as to how I debug this?  I presume my program has
> some instances of non static types which is causing the problem, but
> it is going to be a very long debugging session if it takes me an hour
> each cycle ;-)
> 
> The program is about 700 lines of python (excluding comments).

Split it into pieces and compile each separately.
Recurse.

tjr