On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > > > Pyrex is good for making faster python libraries, which is a great > > > thing, but it won't help with the problem that you really > > > don't want to be running a python interpreter inside a realtime > > > dsp system. > > > > That's not entirely true. I once wrote an OS where the filesystem and > > ATA drivers were written in Python, which was accomplished by linking > > the kernel with libpython (no joke). Lower levels, like the memory > > manager, were written in Pyrex. In the end it was pretty slow and > > useless, but it did run, and at one point I managed to get on IRC with > > it :)
I didn't say it wouldn't *work*. You're the one who said "pretty slow and worthless" :) -PW -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com