On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Isaac Gouy <igo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> So the position is that GCC is allowed to use extensions >> because it's the only C implementation shown and PyPy is not, >> because all Python programs should run on each runtime, is that >> correct? > > I don't see a way to compare CPython and PyPy unless the comparison programs > do at least run on both CPython and PyPy (and x86 and x64).
I don't see why this is, it is the same as comparing python to ruby, I want to see how fast can you make a program in said vm that does the same task. If the description of the problem doesn't limit what you can use I really don't see why can't you use a PyPy (or cpython) extension for it. For me a shootout without extensions (at least without numpy) is just comparing how fast a language can do without anything, which is not interesting at all. One where c programs can use libraries but python cannot is even more meaningless. -- Leonardo Santagada _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
