On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Paul
Winkler wrote:
> > Pyrex is good for making faster python libraries, which is a great
> > thing, but it won't help with the problem that you really
> > don't want to be running a python interpreter inside a realtime
> > dsp system.
>
> That's not entirely true. I once wrote an OS where the filesystem and
> ATA drivers were written in Python, which was accomplished by linking
> the kernel with libpython (no joke). Lower levels, like the memory
> manager, were written in Pyrex. In the end it was pretty slow and
> useless, but it did run, and at one point I managed to get on IRC with
> it :)
I didn't say it wouldn't *work*.
You're the one who said "pretty slow and worthless" :)
-PW
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