what's the current status of python-psyco package?
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Nov 6 20:20:26 UTC 2009
On 09-11-06 09:34:29, Joerg Bergmann wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 08:59 -0500 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I take that last bit back. The python-psyco package is not
> > > available at all on x86_64, regardless of how may set
> > > multilib_policy. :)
> >
> > what's the reasoning for that? is it because that package has no
> > value in a 64-bit environment?
> >
> It's a compiler, and porting a compiler to another platform means
> re-writing large areas of code (at least the code generation part,
> maybe some optimization parts...) Just compiling the present code
> will result in a cross-just-in-time compiler, which still will
> generate
> x86-code...
If you just want the 32-bit version, just get it from a 32-bit repo and
localinstall it?
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