Arich Chanachai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And I think Pypy is currently set up to compile Python > >into Pyrex and then run the Pyrex results through GCC. > > > But of course, who's going to argue that Pyrex produces "compiled > Python"?
Pyrex produces compiled Python in the same sense that asm produces "compiled C". PyPy contains a Python compiler which reads Python source and produces Pyrex output. The Pyrex output then gets compiled by the Pyrex compiler and then the C compiler before ending up with machine code. There is nothing terribly bizarre about this kind of compiler. For example, Gnu Common Lisp compiles Lisp code into C, then runs the C code through gcc. For that matter, the Yacc/Bison parser generators do something similiar. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
