Re: [pypy-dev] Properties in RPython

2015-07-30 Thread Derek Lockhart
This is an emphatic vote to **not** get rid of property support in RPython. We use this heavily to expose a clean API for describing ISAs in Pydgin: https://github.com/cornell-brg/pydgin I'd be happy to take a look when I have more time next week; I'll pop into IRC around then to chat. Currentl

Re: [pypy-dev] Final CFP: 2015 Workshop on Exascale Multi/many Core Computing Systems (E-MuCoCoS) (fwd)

2015-06-23 Thread Derek Lockhart
Exascale (super)computers are aiming for a performance target that exceeds 1 exaFLOPS, or 10**18 floating point ops per second. In the US this goal usually comes associated with a power requirement as well, I think last I heard the power goal was a cap of 20 megawatts (as proposed by the Dept. of

Re: [pypy-dev] RFFI Usage and Documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Derek Lockhart
xpects a .dylib file on OSX, but rffi.CExternVariable expects a .so file. Creating a copy of the .dylib file so I have **both** a .so and .dylib file makes this error go away; but I suspect internal state of the library would not be consistent with two copies... On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM, D

[pypy-dev] RFFI Usage and Documentation

2015-06-22 Thread Derek Lockhart
After a bit of a struggle I finally got RFFI working for a shared libary I had compiled. I found a few strange discrepancies in the behavior of ExternalCompilitionInfo on OSX I thought may benefit from fixes to make behavior more consistent. === RPython Translation vs. Python Execution Strangeness

Re: [pypy-dev] Custom types for annotating a flow object space

2015-03-23 Thread Derek Lockhart
Hi all, Thought I would chime in since this is also of interest to me. I have two distinct projects related to hardware simulation, one of which is very well suited towards the RPython toolchain (Pydgin), and another which is much more closely related to MyHDL (PyMTL). Sarah kindly pointed out t