Paul Rubin wrote: > "Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I talked to Richard Emslie recently and he told me that the PyPy team > > works on a mechanism to create CPython-extension modules written in > > RPython i.e. a statically translateable subset of Python. So even > > without dynamic code specialization there will be an optimization path > > based on the PyPy toolchain that is amazing. > > Sounds great but is that a whole lot different from pyrex?
RPython is Python code not a different language. In a sense RPython consists of a set of rules usual Python has to conform to make complete type-inference feasible. Here is an overview of those rules. http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/coding-guide.html#restricted-python Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list