In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:29:58 -0200, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> escribió: >>>> On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be >>>>> interesting. Is there some application that uses salsa20, that's >>>>> worth being able to interoperate with in pure python? >>>> >>>> The reason for a pure python is that it would be independent from the >>>> platform. A C implementation is faster, but you need to compile it for >>>> every platform. A python implementation doesn't have that problem and >>>> could be used to fall back upon. >>> >>> On most platforms -with a notable exception- there is a C compiler >>> available as a standard tool, which is used to compile Python itself. >>> distutils can easily compile and install C extensions itself, so most of >>> the time "python setup.py install" is the only thing users have to >>> execute, exactly the same as if the package were pure Python. With >>> setuptools, things may be even easier. >> >> What about Jython, PyPy, and IronPython? > >What about them? >Do you mean that there should be a Python implementation for each and >every imaginable module over there, so it can be used with all of those >Python variants? Restricted of course to their minimum common feature set?
<shrug> Is there some reason you're using exaggerated language? My only point is that simply saying "C compiler! C compiler!" ignores the fact that Python itself is multi-platform (and makes you look foolish); whether any given module should be written in pure Python needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson
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