> PythoC doesn’t yet have a mechanism for re-using compiled code when it’s called from Python, the way Cython does.
> At first this seems like a pretty big limitation. But it’s actually the point: You can use PythoC as a code generation system for C programs that run independently, rather than C modules imported into Python.
I have a feeling this model isn't going to be very popular, and they'd be much better off with a way to reuse the compilation result.
> One possibility is that it could integrate more closely with Python at runtime. For instance, a @cached decorator could compile modules once, ahead of time, and then re-use the compiled modules when they’re called from within Python, instead of being recompiled at each run.
Yeah, pretty much what I was thinking. The @compile-decorated function is usable from Python, so the necessary binding logic is already implemented; so surely the decorator could just check a cache to see if the compiled equivalent is already available.
It seems like a powerful and flexible idea overall, though. The toy examples are probably not doing a great job of showcasing what's possible this way.
