what's the current status of python-psyco package?

[Joerg Bergmann]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 08:59 -0500 schrieb Robert P. J. Day:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 
> >
> > I take that last bit back.  The python-psyco package is not
> > available at all on x86_64, regardless of how may set
> > multilib_policy. :)
> 
>   what's the reasoning for that?  is it because that package has no
> value in a 64-bit environment?
> 
It's a compiler, and porting a compiler to another platform means
re-writing large areas of code (at least the code generation part,
maybe some optimization parts...) Just compiling the present code
will result in a cross-just-in-time compiler, which still will generate
x86-code...

Joerg