SPELL=psyco VERSION=1.6 SOURCE_HASH=sha512:08ddc5f941dcc2092b9407ead84e928ddd909fbe0d45222bf392f363f4440f6783b90d65ecad22a0f64331c370913c9c1a60205a976ccf770a9368d04b1b7342 SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION-src.tar.gz SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION SOURCE_URL[0]=$SOURCEFORGE_URL/$SPELL/$SOURCE WEB_SITE=http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ ENTERED=20040217 KEYWORDS="python devel" SHORT="extension module which can speed up Python code" cat << EOF Think of Psyco as a kind of just-in-time (JIT) compiler, a little bit like Java's, that emit machine code on the fly instead of interpreting your Python program step by step. The difference is that Psyco writes several version of the same blocks (a block is a bit of a function), which are optimized by being specialized to some kinds of variables (a "kind" can mean a type, but it is more general). The result is that your unmodified Python programs run faster. EOF