We are proud to announce that since this afternoon the llvm backend can also create a standalone executable of the PyPy interpreter! The current version even runs up to and including the InteractiveConsole, though some things are obviously not working yet.
The llvm backend would not have been possible without all the people contributing to PyPy. Carl Friedrich did an amazing amount for groundwork during the first half of this year. Holger helped out with the architecture of the current llvm backend and Richard and I worked on it for the last two months. If you would like to run the current version on x86 (linux), the executable can be downloaded from http://codespeak.net/~ericvrp/download/entry_point You will see some debug information and sometimes segfaults because not all external functions are (fully) implemented and neither are some other features. At the Heidelberg sprint hopefully the remaining functionality will be implemented. So for PyPy 0.7 we will have two fully self-contained executables. Who would have thought that 2 months ago... enjoy, Eric _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
