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Re:Python for Android by jnbiche on Thursday August 08, 2013 @01:48PM (#6180562)
>"Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM."

That's not true -- PyPy had an experimental JVM backend early-in, but the first and flagship backend has always been the RPython one.

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Re:Python for Android by voidlogic on Thursday August 08, 2013 @02:31PM (#6180833)
Maybe he is thinking of Jython?
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Re:Python for Android by nly on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:20PM (#6182007)
You're correct, I was muddling up the projects (I really don't use or have an interest in Python)

I thought RPython was only translated to C and compiled ahead-of-time.

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Re:Python for Android by jnbiche on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:06PM (#6182593)
You're right about that. To make a more correct analogy, I should have said that the main target has always been C, which RPython "transpiles" into. So the original and primary target has always been portable C, but there have also been experimental JVM, CLR, and JavaScript targets.
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