[Python-Dev] Python and compilers

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I thought RPython already supported this? (admittedly, my knowledge of
> of the inner workings of PyPy is fairly sketchy, but I thought static
> compilation of RPython to a variety of backend targets was one of the
> key building blocks)

Maybe so, but one would still have to create the appropriate
backend to target the machine in question. I wouldn't like
to rely on a generic C-generating backend to target something
very tiny in an effective way.

-- 
Greg