Mailman 3 May 2015 - pypy-dev

use as benchmark pypy vs python if you please
by Dima Tisnek 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Attached is n-queens solver (pardon my naive algorithm), it runs: python 2.7.6: 17s pypy 2.4.0 alpha: 23s same nojit: 32s I've tried similar-looking algorithm for another problem before, and has similar results -- somehow pypy was slower. feel free to investigate / tweak or even use on speed.pypy.org

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Poor performance for Krakatau
by Robert Grosse 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

In some cases, Pypy performs worse than CPython when running Krakatau, and it has gotten a lot worse from 2.3 to 2.5 My benchmark is https://github.com/Storyyeller/Krakatau/tree/pypy_benchmark (for future reference, commit d889c7f44723e6d66a3630681f0385f173317dc9) You can run it with pypy Krakatau\benchmark.py -path <path to Java rt.jar> I get the following timings CPython: 17.43s Pypy 2.3: 38.48s (build pypy-c-jit-71056-c8e3b8cbc843-win32) Pypy 2.4: 39.92s (build pypy-c-jit-72200-375133966c12-win32) Pypy 2.5: 49.94s (build pypy-c-jit-74404-9fd586fe0fe5-win32) Not only was it slower than CPython to begin with, but it got much worse recently.

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PyPy 2.6.0 release binaries available (second try)
by Matti Picus 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

New release packages with cffi 1.1.0 are available on bitbucket , note these are different than what I sent out before. https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads Please try them out, we have new buildslaves for win32, macosx and linux64. We would especially appreciate testing out the vmprof profiling features available on linux-64 Comments on the release notice are also welcome, extra points for guessing what "Cameo Charm" means. No fair checking IRC logs for hints. http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/release-2.6.x/release-2.6.0.html Matti

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An overview of the RPython language
by Ryan Gonzalez 31 May '15

31 May '15

I wrote a quick overview of the RPython language at http://kirbyfan64.github.io/posts/the-magic-of-rpython.html. Any suggestions for improvement would be appreciated. :) IMO, this is needed. Most RPython articles are insanely old (from 200x) or just cover the JIT (Andrew Brown's excellent tutorial). -- Ryan [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong. http://kirbyfan64.github.io/

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How to make a builtin pypy module visible?
by Yicong Huang 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi, I tried to write a simple test module in pypy: 1. Make a new directory in pypy/modules, and put the code there. 2. Add the new module name in pypyoption.py and built the new libpypy-c.so The reason that I put the module in pypy/modules is I tried to make the module build into libpypy-c.so. :) After that, in pypy console, I am able to import the module and run module's function. However, when I tried to import the module in python script, I met the errors: pypy test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "<builtin>/app_main.py", line 75, in run_toplevel File "test.py", line 1, in <module> import pypytest ImportError: No module named pypytest Any steps I missed to make the buitin module visible?

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PyPy 2.6.0 release binaries available
by Matti Picus 27 May '15

27 May '15

The release packages are available on bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/downloads Please try them out, we have new buildslaves for win32, macosx and linux64. We would especially appreciate testing out the vmprof profiling features available on linux-64 Comments on the release notice are also welcome, extra points for a name incorporating "profiling" in it. http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/release-2.6.x/release-2.6.0.html Matti

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What is the oldest version of CPython that can be used to build PyPy?
by Ryan Gonzalez 26 May '15

26 May '15

^ see subject -- Ryan [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong. http://kirbyfan64.github.io/

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Is there similar PyEval_EvalFrameEx() function in PyPy?
by Yicong Huang 26 May '15

26 May '15

We would like to monitor and log all external function calls from a class: when there the function call happen, we capture and log the frame. In python, there is the function PyEval_EvalFrameEx() we might add a callback inside. Is there a similar function in PyPy that would be called when the function call happens?

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PyPy OSX buildbot needed
by Matti Picus 24 May '15

24 May '15

this is an explicit call for help. We do not seem to be able to keep a nightly OSX buildbot functioning, even one that builds once a week or so and can be made available for major merges/releases would be better than none. If you have a lead to a modern OSX machine that can donate cycles to PyPy, please respond or join on IRC at #pypy Thanks

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datetime.date support in NumPyPy
by Antti Mäkinen 22 May '15

22 May '15

Is there any estimate on when NumPyPy will support datetime.date objects in arrays? Regards, Antti Mäkinen

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