Stelios Xanthakis wrote: > Hi. > > pyvm is a program which can run python 2.4 bytecode (the .pyc files). > A demo pre-release is available at: > http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm/ > > > Facts about pyvm: > - It's FAST. According to the "cooked-bench" benchmark suite it finishes > in 55% of the time python takes;) > - It's SMALL. Currently the source code is under 15k lines with the > builtin modules. > - It's new. Uses no code from CPython. > - It's incomplete. Not even near the stability and quality of python. > It needs A LOT of work before it can be compared to CPython. > Moreover, at the time it lacks many things like closures, long numbers > new style classes, etc. > - It's incompatible with CPython. Not all programs run. > - The C API is incompatible. You can't run C modules (a thin wrapper to > make pyvm appear as libpython *could* be possible but not a goal > AFAIC) > - The demo is an x86/linux binary only. You shouldn't trust binaries, > run it in a chrooted environment not as root! > > Hope it works! > > Cheers, > > Stelios
Hi Stelios, could You tell us a bit more about Your motivation to create an alternative C-Python interpreter? There is AFAIK no such ambitious project that has ever survived. The last one I remember died shortly after it was born: http://www.python.org/pycon/papers/pymite/ This is sad because it is still challenging to offer a tiny interpreter of a dynamic language for glue code/RAD on tiny hardware. A lot of effort was spent to provide Java for microcontrollers especially for SmartCards. I think a lot of people would show interest in Your project if it gets somehow focussed and does not seem to be redundant. Ciao, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
