what's the current status of python-psyco package?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Nov 6 14:13:52 UTC 2009


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> what's the reasoning for that?  is it because that package has no
> value in a 64-bit environment?

The specfile¹ says:

# Upstream makes *heavy* use of inline x86 asm this would take extensive
# work to support anything other than x86. See the URL for more info.
# http://psyco.sourceforge.net/links.html
# 
# """
# Here are a couple of non-Pythonic dynamic compilation projects. I am
# often pointed to them as potentials back-ends for Psyco, to help make
# Psyco portable beyond the current x86 machine code. However, I consider
# them as not really suited for Psyco.
# """

¹ http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/python-psyco/devel/python-psyco.spec?view=markup

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