Seeking Minimal Python Project Name (was: [pypy-dev] Re: [ann] Minimal Python project)

Jeff Hinrichs jlh at cox.net
Wed Jan 15 19:05:27 EST 2003


[...snip...]
> Our final goal is to make Python self-contained, that means that
> Python should implement itself, and it should no longer be
> dependant of some C libraries, nor should its majority be
> coded in C. The C part of this new Python will be put down
> to the absolute minimum possible by a simple and portable
> micro interpreter core. Everything else will be built on top of
> this.
> While this minimal interpretrer in C will be able to run on any
> platform, this is only a matter of bootstrap and basic portability.
> For every relevant platform, a real code generator will be developed,
> which will hopefully create code that is comparably fast like the
> C implementation. Furthermore, due to the dynamic techniques in
> Psyco, we do hope to get it reasonably faster.
>
Since the goal is a minimal C implementation of Python, how about
       mCPython
pronounced: em see Python
?
Or even more retro for you Tron fans: MCP
-Jeff






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