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? -- 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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