<div dir="ltr">Not joking at all, I have been crying in my beer since Aaron took his life. I did not know Aaron but went to be a buffer that turned out to be of no need. I am sort of a cultist myself but I really do not fit in a single cult and am basically a lover of all that is boring. I thank Rob of ChiPy for saying hello and hope you are doing well. I do not hink the ChiPy meetings should change but I would, selfishly, like to see some hacks and sprints held on a monthly or biweekly basis. The office hours are a beginning but the Pumping Station: One has so much else that is wonderful it is a distraction from computer hacking.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Adam Forsyth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@adamforsyth.net" target="_blank">adam@adamforsyth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 to Snakebite.<br><br>While the parallelization talk sounds awesome, and I would love to hear it, I think the Snakebite talk might dovetail better with the community / Aaron Swartz focus I think people have been considering for the February meeting?<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Brian Curtin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@python.org" target="_blank">brian@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Trent Nelson <<a href="mailto:trent@snakebite.org" target="_blank">trent@snakebite.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi folks!<br>
><br>
> As luck would have it, it's highly likely I'll be visiting the Windy<br>
> City on the weekend of Feb 15th, so I figured why not try and come a<br>
> day earlier and attend the meetup on the 14th.<br>
><br>
> Little bit of background: I'm a Python and Subversion committer and<br>
> also the founder of Snakebite (<a href="http://www.snakebite.net" target="_blank">www.snakebite.net</a>). I'd be up for<br>
> giving a presentation if time allows. I have two in mind:<br>
><br>
> - A general presentation on Snakebite -- I've given these in the<br>
> past and they've always been well received. Not technical,<br>
> should have wide appeal.<br>
><br>
> - A pre-PyCon presentation on a little project I've been working<br>
> on the past month: "Parallelizing the Python Interpreter: The<br>
> Quest for True Asynchronicity".<br>
><br>
> Sensational title aside, this presentation details the work<br>
> I've done to "parallelize" the Python interpreter; allowing<br>
> Python code to exploit all CPU cores without impeding normal<br>
> single-threaded performance.<br>
><br>
> (This work is comparable to previous attempts to remove the<br>
> GIL with fine-grained locking, as well as the STM work being<br>
> done in PyPy. My approach differs from both: I don't remove<br>
> the GIL nor do I introduce fine-grained locking (which is why<br>
> single-threaded execution doesn't take a performance hit).)<br>
><br>
> This would be a very technical presentation. There's even a<br>
> bit of assembly language involved (well, compiler intrinsics,<br>
> at least). However, it's a pretty cool topic, so even if you<br>
> don't grok the low-level CPython internal stuff, there will be<br>
> lots of other interesting stuff at a higher level.<br>
><br>
> Look forward to meeting you all! (Chicago is probably my favourite<br>
> city in the US.)<br>
<br>
</div></div>Huge +1 on both, but a bigger +1 on the parallel talk.<br>
<br>
However, I'm not 100% sure yet if I can make it to the meeting :(<br>
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