[pypy-dev] Weird C code in crashing code line

[Stefan Behnel]

Joe Hillenbrand, 11.10.2012 19:13:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> I get a crash in lxml's test suite on 64bit Linux, right with the first
>> test.
> 
> Is this part of an effort to make Cython code work with PyPy?

Yes.


> lxml is written in Cython, and AFAIK Cython doesn't work with PyPy.

Yes, it does.


> Even if it did, it wouldn't much help right now because if I remember
> correctly, Cython compiles to CPython extensions which are slower in
> PyPy than in CPython

Yes, they are. But they still work. You should run your own benchmarks, as
usual, and report any problems to the appropriate projects.

Stefan