July 12, 2004

Where's the profit step?

Thanks to a loaner laptop from work (which was every bit as bad as promised--you apparently don't get as much bang from your MHz from Pentium IIIs as you do from G3s) I finished off Python::Bytecode. It's hit CPAN as I'm now (shudder) the official maitainer, so, well, have at it. Python::Bytecode 2.4 is up and installable via CPAN.pm or from $CPAN/authors/id/DSUGAL.

This version should, theoretically, be complete and ready to use. It'll properly disassemble (or, rather, make disassemblable) bytecode files with multiple code objects, patches up the dopey constants and variable name errors it had, and even has tests for python 2.2 and 2.3 format bytecode. It won't generate python bytecode (and the answer to "Will it?" is "Sure, as soon as you write that bit" :), but it should now be sufficient to use as a disassembler for the piethon contest.

That's step one. Leo's working on step 3, the back end parts. Now all I need to do is get step 2, the cross-assembler, written... Posted by Dan at July 12, 2004 02:10 PM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

I'm looking forward to OSCON. Your last few "my laptop is dead" posts were disheartening, so it's nice to see progress being made on this again.

Posted by: Brad Fitzpatrick at July 12, 2004 03:05 PM

Thanks Dan (and everybody else working on Parrot) for not giving up!

Keep up the good work.

Posted by: Yuog at July 14, 2004 07:35 AM