[Cython] New project : Spyke python-to-C compiler

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Rahul Garg wrote:
>
> Quoting Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu>:
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>> Thanks for answering. Do you mind if I forward this response to the
>> cython mailing list?
>>
>> - Robert
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> 1. Please forward if appropriate. Also include this reply please :)
>
> 2. I forgot to ask : Do you use some particular tests/benchmarks  
> etc? I can try and adapt those to Spyke-syntax if some test cases  
> are available.

Not much, but Stefan Behnel did do some tests at http://codespeak.net/ 
pipermail/cython-dev/2008-March/000107.html .

> 3. Looking forward : with function annotations in Python-3k it  
> might actually be a good idea to work towards a unified syntax.  
> That way code will be portable b/w the 2 compilers and can also be  
> adopted by other tools like editors, debuggers and such. Of course  
> this is just an idea off the top of my head so need to look into  
> more details.

Yes, this would be very good. We certainly plan to make use of  
function annotations (and decorators) to be able to specify types.

- Robert