Re: Packaging pypy
On Nov 29, 2011, at 04:20 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>Bytecode format is an internal detail of a VM. For all I know it might
>completely disappear. CPython likes to change it's bytecode format
>every release and we usually follow changes, but we also have quite a
>few our own bytecodes. The thing is they're a bit unnecessary when it
>comes to performance - this is not the way we approach optimizing
>python, but indeed there are no promises this won't change between
>versions.
While chatting about this in irc (#debian-python on oftc), I mistakenly
thought that PyPy supported PEP 3147, but I think it's only PEP 3149. 3147
shouldn't be that difficult to support - what is your thought on adding that
to PyPy? It would mean one less symlink farm.
-Barry
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