[Mono-list] MonoPython?

[Bob Smith]

Couldnt you somehow use p/invoke to support the c modules?

On 4 Jan 2002, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > I think that the real problems are to do with mapping the
> > semantics of Python to .NET; this I can't yet comment
> > on, I haven't researched it enough.  I was wondering about
> > doing my research by hacking MonoPython and seeing exactly
> > why it won't work :-)
>
> Thanks Ian for the explanation.
>
> What Jan said at the PDC was that one of the reasons why Python and Perl
> as compilers that generate CIL code were not that useful was because
> there was no way to interface the existing Python and Perl plugins to
> the CIL code.
>
> Many people use extensions that are written in C, and those would not be
> moved transparently.  Using the existing Perl interpreter and VM engine
> they could easily export all Perl types to .NET and the other way
> around.  Of course there was going to be a performance hit because the
> JIT would not be able to directly access fields in Perl land or the
> other way around, but at least they would get full compatibility with
> existing source code.
>
>
> Miguel.
>
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