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Re: Python frontend?

From: Colin Douglas Howell <chowell2 at pacbell dot net>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: John <jante_nord at yahoo dot co dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:56:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Python frontend?
References: <20041029202602.29005.qmail@web86904.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4183E521.8030808@codesourcery.com>

Mark Mitchell wrote:

John wrote:

Has anyone conceived a python frontend for gcc?
Yes, I did conceive of such a thing a few years back. And I was probably not the first.

Would it be possible?
Yes. But, not easy. And, because Python is so dynamic, you would end up emitting a lot of calls to runtime support routines for things that look like built-in operators.


You might take a look at Psyco instead.  Haven't tried it, but it does
look interesting.  It's basically a JIT compiler that compiles code
blocks based on the types of data they use, so there may be multiple
compiled versions of the same block for different kinds of data.  At
present it seems to be x86-only, and it does have a few semantic bugs.

http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

Colin

References:
- Python frontend?
  - From: John
- Re: Python frontend?
  - From: Mark Mitchell

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