[Cython] Pi in the sky: Alternate back-end?

[Stefan Behnel]

Michael Abshoff wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> That said, there is a project that tries to port CPython extension
>> modules
>> to IronPython, already with some success from what I heard. An adapted
>> Cython backend might be very well suited to simplify the interfacing and
>> porting overhead here. Haven't heard of anything in the Java area,
>> though.
>
> Do you have any pointers here?

Had to look it up myself, but here it is:

http://code.google.com/p/ironclad/

They seem to have bz2 working (their first simple target) and major parts
of NumPy. I never looked at it in detail, but I assume that most of their
work deals with enumlating the ref-counting stuff and finding more or less
simple replacements for the C-API functions.

Stefan