Hi Samuel,
If I understand your question correctly, you are a bit confused about
RPython. Only the interpreter is translated to c and then compiled. The
source code to the interpreter is obviously not secret at all, we all work
on it and share it on bitbucket.
User code might be secret, but it is not passed through the translation
toolchain. In the case of Python on PyPy the user code is compiled to a
bytecode very similar to CPython's bytecode. I would say this bytecode is
quite readable, so it's significantly more readable than optimized x86
output. I suppose it would be possible to add some obfuscation to the
bytecode but I don't know how one would do that effectively without
modifying the entire bytecode interpreter and compiler, which would be an
undertaking...
I may have misunderstood you though, feel free to correct me.
Cheers,
Dan
On Jul 9, 2011 10:24 AM, "Samuel Ytterbrink" <nepp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was just thinking and then ask my self... Dose writing things in RPython
> and then compile the code with translate and a c compiler make it as hard
to
> read as a c program... thinking that python some times get a hard time
being
> a commercial tool for app making, companies don't want end users to be
able
> to read there code.
>
> Am i correct and if so are there any improvements you could do to make the
> interpreter read a more 'seacret' version of python code, some kinde of
> binary code( or dose the byetcode work for this).
>
> Hope this is not a stupid or foolish topic.
>
> --
> //Samuel Ytterbrink
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