Use DragonFFI as backend

[aguinet]

It's more an idea than an issue, but maybe using DragonFFI (github.com/aguinet/dragonffi) as a compiler and "python glue" (that is convert data back and forth from C and python) backend can solve some of the issues you have (like generating many .so's).

Let me know if you are interested!

[ssize-t]

Looks great! How does the JIT work? Does pydffi.FFI().compile() write a module to the filesystem or does it keep everything in memory somehow?

[aguinet]

It's all kept in memory using one of the LLVM jitter mechanism (which also has its own runtime dynamic linker, to link dynamic objects together if necessary).