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

[Michael Abshoff]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 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/

Thanks.

> 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.

I had heard about the ongoing numpy port, but I did not make the 
connection to this. In the end it cannot hurt to support IronPython even 
though it looks like they have some way to go.

> Stefan

Cheers,

Michael

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