Re: why is it so quiet in here?

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:29 -0700 Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> There has been almost no discussion for the last four days.  I thought it
> was because of the Fourth of July weekend but not everyone is an american
> and that holiday was two days ago.
> 
> We have a ton of topics to cover including some really wild ideas like
> getting rid of the C api?  Is everyone going to just sit back and let me do
> something like that? :-)
>
Are you talking about a built-in version of Python's ctypes module? There was a
discussion on the Pyrex mailing list about what was better, ctypes or Pyrex. The
general concensus, though not proven, was that ctypes would be slower. But what
about adding new types to Prothon, like numarray. I doubt a JIT could optimize
something like that? Or would one have to write it as a pure C library, then wrap
it for Prothon?
 
> Now that it is July we have to clean off that list of outstanding issues so
> we can freeze the language.
> 
> Is everyone clamming up because of the WIKI?
> 
Possibly.