Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] OPENGL

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

horace wrote:
> would it be possible to write a tool which automatically converts 
> ctype wrappers to pyrex? wouldn't that be nice?
>
> i am no computer scientist though and maybe this is a stupid idea 
> which isn't feasible. :)
In fact, PyPy is able to translate a subset of ctypes into a number of 
code types including C code with type inferencing allowing for 
significant code simplification... i.e. the code should get close to the 
speed of directly C-coded source code.

The wrappers are also built from gcc-xml output (for the "raw" API), I 
*believe* pyrex already has a mechanism that allows for the same 
transformation (i.e. build a raw API from raw gcc-xml).  Which is to 
say, we could, in theory, provide a way to register a "raw" API plugin 
for PyOpenGL that would allow for entirely replacing the core-code 
operations (or something like that).  That way a compiled system could 
provide a run-time pluggable replacement for the pure-python code... in 
theory, anyway...

Have to get back to work now.

Have fun,
Mike

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