Hello. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> wrote:
Hi Kai,
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:36AM +0100, kai.aras wrote:
I know that targeting Embedded Platforms was an Issue in the original EU-Project and there was that Maemo thing last year, so I'm guessing this could be a general topic for a GSoC Project as well as a Bachelor's Thesis, what do you guys think ? Is this something you would like to see as well ?
I am afraid there is a gap (larger than ever) between the small amount of "core people" and the large amount of directions we could explore. Thank you for your interest; by no mean I intend to disappoint you, but there is just no-one working on the general topic of embedding PyPy any longer. So it is very unlikely that you can get a SoC project on it.
I think I would like to expand on that. In the past we had a bit of problems with people doing work for SoC and then abandoning a working prototype. Since it was out of interest of a core group, we just killed the code or moved it to some obscure place at some later point. In a way, we would like to encourage people to do some work which is more of a core interest (at least for SoC) and if in doubt, we would choose such people. That said, personally I would encourage you to investigate this direction for your bachelor if you feel like it. For example the idea of having a JIT on embedded devices is for example a very researchy area, since you need memory for the JIT (which is not free on embedded devices). Cheers, fijal