In short, I'm trying to find a way to direct the ideas and enthusiasm generated in this thread back onto the core before launching off in experimental directions.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Matthew Rocklin <mrock...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like Joachim's suggestion of de-dynamizing the codebase. I suspect it > would help not only with future attempts at translation, but also with > Cython or PyPy ports. It would probably even help the pure Python > implementation (which remains my top priority) and encourage growth. > > Efforts to remove magic without reducing performance would probably have > significant positive impact both in increasing portability to other > languages and also in supporting growth within the existing codebase. > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Joachim Durchholz <j...@durchholz.org>wrote: > >> Am 30.09.2013 23:07, schrieb F. B.: >> >> >>> By the way, what about trying to force static typing in sympy's core >>> through the usage of decorators? >>> >> >> Can any IDE make use of that? >> >> >> > Or maybe even try to define a standard to >> >>> write Python code in order to make it easy to translate it to C++ through >>> code generators? I am fascinated by the idea of sympy being written in >>> C/C++, but I am also very skeptical about the time needed for a >>> translation >>> by hand. >>> >> >> One of the problems in Sympy is that it's making quite liberal use of >> Python's ability to add class members long after the classes are declared. >> The C and S classes are examples of this, and probably the most >> significant ones in the Sympy codebase. I've been working on eliminating C >> for a quite a while, and it's so pervasive and sometimes interwoven with >> other parts of Pyhon that I sometimes found it hard to make any progress at >> all; an automatic translation would probably have face more problems. >> >> So to prepare for translation to C++, I guess the whole codebase would >> need to be de-dynamized quite a bit. >> This would probably also make the various code analysis plugin more >> reliable. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> sympy+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<sympy%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/sympy<http://groups.google.com/group/sympy> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
