Mailman 3 April 2009 - pypy-dev

Multimethods in Paper
by Niko Matsakis April 17, 2009

April 17, 2009

This paper: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1133651.1133655 describes MultiJava, which extends Java to support multi-methods and open classes. If I recall correctly, it contains a description of the different techniques they used and their performance characteristics. Might be useful for various OOType backends.... Niko

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Re: [pypy-dev] LLVM and JS backends
by Carl Friedrich Bolz April 17, 2009

April 17, 2009

Hi Donny, Donny Viszneki wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> today we removed the LLVM and the JS backends from the trunk. Both were >> not really maintained anymore, there usefulness was limited and there >> tests were mostly skipped. The people at the sprint decided that it >> would be best to remove them from the repository so that they are not >> part of the release. If somebody is interested in … [View More]

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Naming scheme
by Maciej Fijalkowski April 16, 2009

April 16, 2009

Hello. That might sound a bit like bike sheding, but I would like to talk a bit about naming scheme. What do you think about actually naming PyPy release 2.5 after language version it supports? We can invent suffixes like pypy-2.5-something in order to release still 2.5, but which supports some more things (like JIT?). Cheers, fijal

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LLVM and JS backends
by Carl Friedrich Bolz April 16, 2009

April 16, 2009

Hi all, today we removed the LLVM and the JS backends from the trunk. Both were not really maintained anymore, there usefulness was limited and there tests were mostly skipped. The people at the sprint decided that it would be best to remove them from the repository so that they are not part of the release. If somebody is interested in reviving and actively maintaining them, please speak up. Cheers, Carl Friedrich

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mentoring by proxy?
by inhahe April 16, 2009

April 16, 2009

Hi, I overheard on the irc channel about 'mentoring', where someone who knows pypy acts as a mentor to bring someone else into deep knowledge of it, i'm assuming so they can work on pypy. i'm not asking for a personal mentor, because there's not a really big chance i'll be working on it, but i'm curious to know. so, i was wondering whether there's any archives/logs (maybe someone can upload me some if they're not on the 'net) of complete mentoring back-and-forths (or possibly tutorials) for … [View More]

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PyPy issue tracker work?
by Alexandr N. Zamaraev April 14, 2009

April 14, 2009

Hi PyPy-dev! :) Does it communicate the meaning of PyPy issue of the problems? I have created some issue (425, 433) and added to the patches 183 and 425. But there does not appear whether they are and in what condition. How can it get? -- Alexandr N. Zamaraev

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Upcoming Sprint
by Niko Matsakis April 7, 2009

April 7, 2009

Hello, Due to the enormous time demands on my PhD, I've been out of touch lately! I follow from the blog though :) and it seems like you guys have been doing great work. I am hoping to attend the sprint in Leysin. I would be able to come from the 14th until the 19th (I have to be back on the 20th, so I figure I'd leave 19th in the afternoon/evening). I'd have no problem sharing a room, though I'm not sure if the fact that I can't stay for the full sprint would be an issue. As … [View More]

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http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
by Christian Tismer April 7, 2009

April 7, 2009

Hi friends, please have a look at this. http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan is this YAIPAP ? Yet Another Ignorant Python Acceleration Project I see them mentioning Hölzle and Self, and I see a reference to Psyco where they want to steal from, but PyPy does not exist. IMHO, this is totally GAGA - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@stackless.com> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg … [View More]

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Re: [pypy-dev] did we submit any europython talks?
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton April 6, 2009

April 6, 2009

i'll be at europython, to talk about the combination of http://pyjs.org and http://code.google.com/p/pyv8 which produces a really simple JIT python compiler. amongst other things. it'd be good to get an opportunity to speak with people, see where things stand, and where collaboration and cooperation would advance all these low-level python projects. l.

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Cross implementation benchmarking and testing
by Michael Foord April 6, 2009

April 6, 2009

Hello all, One of the things that came out of the Python language summit at PyCon was an agreement to improve the Python test suite for alternative implementations, plus attempt to develop useful cross-implementation benchmarks. Discussion of this is now happening on the stdlib-sig mailing list (which was chosen because it already existed and was unused): http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig Anyone interested can join the list. Michael -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/

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