[pypy-dev] Who's developing language interpreters in PyPy

[Simon Burton]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:58:19 +0200
Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz at gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> Robert Schmitt wrote:
> > What about a C/C++ interpreter/compiler, there would be some real
> > benefit if people could transpile C code to python.
> 
> To be honest, I don't see how a C-to-Python-compiler a) relates to PyPy
> and b) why it would be useful. What real benefit do you see there?

Being able to run optimisations that include external C libraries.
This is what the llvm guys can do with the gcc front end, i believe.
hmm, perhaps it then makes sense to build a llvm frontend :)

Simon.