I have an alternative idea in mind I'll write up a doc, stick it on github and share with you guys in a couple of days
thanks for a clear answer, I just couldn't figure that out form code easily :P d. On 26 March 2011 01:33, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/3/26 Dima Tisnek <dim...@gmail.com>: >> Hey, I had a look at cpyext recently and saw that reference counting >> is emulated with, err, reference counting, seeminlgy in the referenced >> object itself. >> >> Does this mean that cpyext would not work with other gc's or is there >> some wrapping going on behind the scenes? > > Cpyext works with all pypy gc's. The PyObject* exposed to C code is actually > a proxy to the "real" interpreter object; a dict lookup is necessary each > time a > reference crosses the C/pypy boundary. Yes, this is slow. > > This is implemented in pypy/module/cpyext/pyobject.py; the main functions are > create_ref() and from_ref(). > > -- > Amaury Forgeot d'Arc > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
