[LLVMdev] Another LLVM JIT extension to Python

[Sean Silva]

This is awesome! The noninvasive approach that you took is really cool.

I love the Python `ast` module because it allows things like this to
happen! I really like the syntax that you chose for declaring
variables and types within Python2's native syntax, too.

If you ever port to Python3, you'll be able to use function
annotations <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/> to make it even
slicker.

Also, for whatever it's worth, the code looks pretty "professional" to me.

--Sean Silva

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Siu Kwan Lam <michael.lam.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LLVM,
>
> I am a young developer who have just uploaded my first opensource project
> based on LLVM. I would like to know what professionals think of my project.
>
> I have started a JIT extension to Python called Pymothoa (
> http://code.google.com/p/pymothoa/). Unlike other similar projects, I did
> not modify the interpreter. Pymothoa uses Python decorators to mark function
> for JIT compiling. It uses the AST generated by Python; thereby, it uses the
> same syntax of Python but works like a low-level programming language (like
> C). The goal is to get speedup in compute-intensive code without writing
> C-extensions.
>
> If you are interested, there are two demo applications in the source tree:
> matrix-matrix multiplication and reduce-sum. I would appreciate any comment.
>
> Siu Kwan Lam
>
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