[pypy-dev] Proposal of timeline

[Maciek Fijalkowski]

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>> Lastly, what is the easy approach to I/O and external functions?
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> the easy approach is to forward the external functions to the backend, 
> which will take care of rendering them as appropriate (usually by 
> calling an helper function written in java). This approach is already 
> used to implement time.time, time.clock and os.write: you can find their 
> implementation in jvm/src/pypy/PyPy.java (ll_time_time, ll_time_clock, 
> ll_os_write). The code that calls these functions is in 
> jvm/generator.py, method 'call_primitive'.
>
> ciao Anto
>   
Small addition from my side. I've been playing recently with a very 
naive reuse of BasicExternal infrastructure which is supporting external 
objects in JS backend. Looks nice so far and I'm able to hard code some 
RPython-accessible objects (in a very ad hoc manner, mind you). I don't 
know Java that well, but I would be happy to help with this issue.

Cheers,
fijal


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