[pypy-dev] Re: CLI code generation

[Ben.Young at risk.sungard.com]

> holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> writes:
> 
> > Re-Hi! 
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 21:53 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:43:26PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> >> > Good point which i indeed had forgotten about.  Also regarding GCs 
> >> > it is higher level than C.  So probably we need oo + 
part-of-lltypes :)
> >> 
> >> You keep inserting lltype here -- probably just out of our
> >> well-established habit of loving confusion :-)  ootype contains
> >> lltype-ish aspects of its own, because all OO target languages that 
we
> >> have in mind need these aspects.  There is nothing special about IL 
--
> >> certainly not anything that would make it different than C#, as far 
as I
> >> can tell.
> >
> > didn't intend to doubt the latter.  But I guess i need to
> > refresh/improve my knowledge of ootypes. 
> 
> A particular, relevant fact here is that the ootypesystem and the
> lltypesystem are not disjoint -- they share at least the Primitives,
> which is to say the representations of integers, floats, etc.
> 

Hi Michael,

Does the ootypesystem has high level representations of lists and dicts 
yet? Would that perhaps be a good thing for me to try to implement as a 
way of helping out?

Cheers,
Ben

> Cheers,
> mwh
> 
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