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Robert Kern rkern at ucsd.edu
Mon Dec 27 15:11:06 EST 2004 
Luis M. Gonzalez wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>Starkiller, at least, can deal with cases where a variable might be one 
>>of a set of types and generates code for each of this set. Explicit type 
>>declarations can help keep these sets small and reduces the number of 
>>times that Starkiller needs to fall back to PyObject_* calls.
> 
> Will we be able to see it anytime soon?
> I'm eagerly waiting for its release.

It's been "about a month away" for at least 4 months now. I don't know 
what the holdup has been. I know that Michael has graduated and so he's 
probably been busy with a new job.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
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