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-rw-r--r--cffi/vengine_gen.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cffi/vengine_gen.py b/cffi/vengine_gen.py
index a2a6e78..27fe82c 100644
--- a/cffi/vengine_gen.py
+++ b/cffi/vengine_gen.py
@@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ class VGenericEngine(object):
# the C compiler
self._load(module, 'loading')
- # build the FFILibrary class and instance
+ # build the FFILibrary class and instance, this is a module subclass
+ # because modules are expected to have usually-constant-attributes and
+ # in PyPy this means the JIT is able to treat attributes as constant,
+ # which we want.
class FFILibrary(types.ModuleType):
_cffi_generic_module = module
_cffi_ffi = self.ffi