New Python implementation

[Mr Flibble]

On 13/02/2021 00:01, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 12/02/2021 21:46, Mr Flibble wrote:
> 
>> The neos Python implementation will consist of a schema file
>> which describes the language plus any Python-specific semantic concepts
> 
> So the schema file is some kind of formal grammar definition of
> the language?
> 
> And you "compile" this directly into machine code?
> Is that the idea?
> 
> So when you say you have a universal compiler for any language
> what you mean is that you can produce a compiler/interpreter
> for any language from a language definition/schema. Is that it?
> 
> I'm still not sure I understand what exactly you are proposing
> to do. What the final output looks like?
> 
> I'm assuming it's a new executable interpreter that can run any
> valid python code. Is that correct?

It is a universal *compiler* so it compiles the python code to byte code and then optionally to machine code via a JIT which is then executed.

/Flibble

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