Neat, did you take any inspiration from Shedskin? It is a Python to C++ compiler.
The perf numbers look decent. What optimizations are you the most proud of?
Do you have plans for eval? what would stop you from supporting eval?
Neat, did you take any inspiration from Shedskin? It is a Python to C++ compiler.
The perf numbers look decent. What optimizations are you the most proud of?
Do you have plans for eval? what would stop you from supporting eval?
I wasn't familiar with Shedskin, I'll take a look !
The optimization I'm most proud of is native type specialization when possible, allowing many values to stay as int64_t or double instead of generic slow Lua values.
As for eval, Clx is fully ahead-of-time compiled. Supporting it would require embedding an interpreter in the runtime and use an interface with Clx... making it significantly larger and going against the idea of compiling everything ahead of time.
For dynamic code execution, the Lua interpreter is probably the better tool.