Questions about your approach

Hi,

I'm writing a paper about our PHP compiler, phc. In our 'related work'
section, I'd like to discuss pyrex, so I have a few questions. I've
looked through your documentation and releases, but the answers
haven't been apparent.

Did pyrex originally compile standard python, or was it annotated with
types from the start? If the former, why the change?

Has you run benchmarks on the compiled applications? How about when
you try to compile plain python? What's the performance like?

Are there any papers describing python? I've seen a lot of citations
of the web page, which leads me to suspect there aren't.

I wonder if you have any comments on your approach vs. that of the
defunct python2c?


Thanks in advance,
Paul

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Paul Biggar
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