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yeah, I'd love to understand the reason behind that statement.
by andreisoare 13y ago
yeah, I'd love to understand the reason behind that statement.
- nly 13y agoPyPy?
- masklinn 13y agopypy is dynamic analysis.
- nly 13y agoSemantics. Pypy's RPython dialect is "a restricted subset of Python that is amenable to static analysis", to quote the PyPy website.
- masklinn 13y agoRPython and Pypy are different things. RPython is a restricted subset of python indeed, but its purpose is to be a toolkit for implementing virtual machines. It is not and does not aim to be a general-purpose programming environment. PyPy is a JITed Python runtime implemented in RPython. The relation between PyPy and RPython is more or less the relation between CPython and C.