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

+1 for "... how hard could it be?".

Take a look here: http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/dist/c/i386/iprocessor.c

All that ASM would have to be ported, and there are assumptions all over the place about the underlying processor.

I think it's fair to say that if it were trivial to port (or not too difficult), it would already have been done.