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[Python-Dev] Python and compilers

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 03:33:12 CEST 2010 
Greg Ewing wrote:
> Michael Foord wrote:
> 
>> *However*, a project that would be interesting - and that I have
>> wanted to do in order to program microcontrollers with *very* small
>> memory address spaces [1] - would be to compile a static subset of
>> Python down to C.
> 
> That would be an excellent project -- if the result were
> successful, I'd be interested in using it!

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)

Cheers,
Nick.

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