<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abpillai@gmail.com">abpillai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Shekhar <<a href="mailto:pythonic@gmail.com">pythonic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Already slashdotted and many of us should already be knowing but could<br>
> not resist posting.<br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars</a><br>
> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan</a><br>
> Apart from performance boost there is also mention of removal of GIL.<br>
> Very exciting.<br>
><br>
> Would love to hear opinions of bangpypers.<br>
</div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">I also<br></div>
liked their focus on improving cPickle performance, which is an area<br>
that badly needs improvement.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Bingo! It seems like cPickle is fast until you play with something like a recent version of simplejson...now that's fast. And then it's like, boy is cPickle slow. Pretty soon you're jsonifying everything. :)<br>
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