Re: [pygame] pypy?

["Lenard Lindstrom" <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Aug 2006 at 16:20, Timothy Fitz wrote:

> Let me attempt to clear some pypy things up. PLEASE NOTE, PyPy is a
> fast moving target, and by that I mean every three months they invent
> a new paradigm for programming in python.
> 
> At the moment, you can write in RPython, a subset of python which
> looks more like pyrex without the type-declarations, and translate
> that directly and efficiently to C code. Secondly, you can take a
> fully-RPython library that uses ctypes and translate it into a
> *CPython* extension library which is STATICALLY linked against the
> library. This means no more ctypes ffi overhead. PyPy compiled RPython
> is MUCH MUCH faster than RPython run over CPython. It seems that the
> average case of translating a Python module to an RPython module
> results in a speedup.
> 
> This means if someone is willing to take the time and port SDL-ctypes
> to RPython, we made see a fair to signficant *immediate* performance
> boost.
> 
PyPy doesn't compile ctypes. It compiles rctypes, a subset of ctypes. 
As long as the SDL module is only declaring structures and C 
functions it should work.


Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>