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
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