Posts in Experiment

QuickNote: The Sieve in RPython

Before implementing an RPython backend, a short study of RPython is made, including implementing The Sieve demo (start/DRAFT) in RPython. It’s like a hand-compiled RPython variant, following the approach as described in the Jinja rendering study), for the CC2CPy backend.

Writing RPython isn’t too complicated for someone with a C-background. But making the code pass the RPython compiler can be tricky, however. Both, as just added statements can interfere with existing code – when that isn’t “static enough”, new code can trigger compile errors in old, tested code! And, because the RPython compiler isn’t that great in giving helpful info.
It feels like old-style debugging: try-and-error, remove-and-enable-lines, one-at-a-time until one understands and it becomes easy to fix…

This blog is both to share some RPython experience and to study the patterns that are needed to generate RPython code to implement the Castle-Compiler.

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Remote MD

I try to create beautiful WebSlides by combining a html-template with md-content. Typically, they have the same filename (but for the extension) in the same directory (and site).

In this blog, we are examining another option: Apparently it is possible to load a remote MD-file. This gives new options. By example: host a (generated) html-file on one cloud-provider and the md-file on another-one.

Unfortunately this setup is unstable: It may work, and sometimes does; but it may fail too….

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