On Jan 16, 5:37 pm, "Brendan Miller" <catph...@catphive.net> wrote: > So I kind of wanted to ask this question on the pypy mailing list.. > but there's only a pypy-dev list, and I don't want to put noise on the > dev list. > > What's the point of RPython? By this, I don't mean "What is RPython"? > I get that. I mean, why?
There are some distinct benefits of RPython: * starts up as real python code, letting you define globals that later get "snapshotted" into static code * can be executed using a real python interpreter, getting much more reliable debugging (but broken rpython code might run fine under python) * provides a clear avenue for extension, by adding more python features You might argue just having a python syntax is also a benefit, but the semantics are so different as to more than counteract it. Add in the cost of implementing your own compiler... yeah. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
