What are the possible pitfalls in porting Psyco to 64-bit?

Question

The Psyco docs say:

Just for reference, Psyco does not work on any 64-bit systems at all. This fact is worth being noted again, now that the latest

Answer 1

Psyco assumes that sizeof(int) == sizeof(void*) a bit all over the place. That's much harder than just writing down 64bit calling conventions and assembler. On the sidenote, pypy has 64bit jit support these days.

Cheers, fijal