[pavanky]

Can someone explain to me how an interpreter written in Python works ? Has it become bootstrapped at some stage such that the entire interpreter is written in restricted Python which is now translated to C and compiled ?

[StavrosK]

Yes, actually. Exactly that. They wrote the interpreter in RPython (running over CPython), then wrote an RPython to C compiler in RPython (again on CPython), and then compiled the interpreter using the compiler.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, though.

[DasIch]

The RPython compiler does not need to be written in RPython itself.

[johnyui]

He didn't say it had to be, he said it was.

"The RPython compiler is written in RPython". "The RPython compiler had to be written in RPython". See the difference? Fucking retard.

[yen223]

What's with the unnecessary hostility?

[andybak]

Flagged. We don't need that kind of thing round here.

[fijal]

Well, it's not. RPython compiler is written in Python.

[gtani]

http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v...