Re: Snowball to Python compiler

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: Snowball to Python compiler
Date	2011-04-21 23:48 -0400
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On 4/21/2011 8:25 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Matt Chaput<matt@whoosh.ca>  writes:
>> I'm looking for some code that will take a Snowball program and
>> compile it into a Python script. Or, less ideally, a Snowball
>> interpreter written in Python.
>>
>> (http://snowball.tartarus.org/)
>>
>> Anyone heard of such a thing?
>
> I never saw snowball before, it looks kind of interesting, and it
> looks like it already has a way to compile to C.  If you're using
> it for IR on any scale, you're surely much better off using the C
> routines with a C API wrapper,

If the C routines are in a shared library, you should be able to write 
the interface in Python with ctypes.

> than translating snowball to
> Python, which will be dog slow to interpret.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Snowball to Python compiler Matt Chaput <matt@whoosh.ca> - 2011-04-21 18:05 -0400
  Re: Snowball to Python compiler Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-21 17:25 -0700
    Re: Snowball to Python compiler Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-21 23:48 -0400
    Re: Snowball to Python compiler Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-04-22 09:50 +0200

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