Re: [pypy-dev] OS

2011-12-10 Thread William ML Leslie
With a little work it would be possible to target ring0 with rpython, but the real question is why you would want to. There are many other languages better suited to the task. On 11/12/2011 1:01 PM, "Rinu Boney" wrote: can RPython be converted to low level code as to create something like a kern

[pypy-dev] OS

2011-12-10 Thread Rinu Boney
can RPython be converted to low level code as to create something like a kernel or something low level as that ? what about an OS with assembly lang , little C/C++ and RPython ? can an OS like android be developed using RPython ? ( by RPython i also mean using the PyPy tool chain )

Re: [pypy-dev] python 2 and python 3 sharing an interpreter?

2011-12-10 Thread holger krekel
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 05:35 -0500, Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > > Would it be possible to have an interpreter that could support both Python > > 2 and Python 3 modules in the same runtime? I.e, an interpreter that > > supports importing Python 3 co

Re: [pypy-dev] PyPy Tool Chain

2011-12-10 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 09:04, Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > I would say that the language has to be sort of dynamic for it to make > sense. A variety of language *have* been implemented, giving credibility > to that claim (barebones JS, Prolog, Scheme). ...you forget Haskell :-) For Java, i

Re: [pypy-dev] Concerning bounded number of classes created

2011-12-10 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 02:16, Alexander Golec wrote: > I have a question concerning what I think is a conflict between the RPython > coding guide and the 2005 EU paper. This is not a conflict. The coding guide says that you cannot create any RPython class at runtime. This is true. A prior

Re: [pypy-dev] PyPy Tool Chain

2011-12-10 Thread Carl Friedrich Bolz
On 12/10/2011 05:01 AM, Rinu Boney wrote: Can almost any language be implemented in RPython and be faster ? ( like can we implement a langugae like java ? ) I would say that the language has to be sort of dynamic for it to make sense. A variety of language *have* been implemented, giving credib