[gentoo-amd64] Re: Psyco for portage on amd64

[Duncan]

Alex Bennee posted <1130099813.2014.4.camel@malory>, excerpted below,  on
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:36:53 +0100:

> c/dispatcher.c: In function `fz_compress':
> c/dispatcher.c:232: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different
> size
> c/dispatcher.c:238: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different
> size

The code isn't 64-bit clean and will likely take a significant
amount of work to port (certainly for those not coders enough to
recognize the problem with the above...  I don't claim to be a C coder or
knowledgable enough to fix the issue, but do see it).

Esearch says the homepage is http://psyco.sourceforge.net.  Quoting the
top two news items on that page:

24 September 2005

[...]

A common question I get is whether Psyco will work on 64-bit x86
architectures. The answer is no, unless you have a Python compiled in
32-bit compatibility mode. If you haven't heard about PyPy, see the
following news item.

6 August 2005 

For the last few months, Psyco has been hosted on http://codespeak.net in
a Subversion repository. However, Psyco has not been in very active
development for quite a while now. I consider that the project is as
complete as it can reasonably be. Developing it further would be possible
and interesting, but require much more efforts that I want to invest. The
future of Psyco now lies in the PyPy project, which according to plan will
provide a good base for a Python interpreter with better and
well-integrated Psyco-like techniques as soon as 2006. (Additionally, it
is not impossible that we could even derive a C extension module for
CPython very similar to today's Psyco.) So stay tuned to PyPy!

So... I'd suggest what he does...  Take a look at PyPy...

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