Hi. Thanks for the info :) My plan is to first use pypy for a few weeks as a user (perhaps writing a few benchmarks, testing out stuff like AOP, reading the docs on pypy and psyco etc). I hope to be involved more directly from sometime in october. thanks, rahul On 9/20/07, Leonardo Santagada <santagada@gmail.com> wrote:
Em Sep 20, 2007, às 7:15 AM, Rahul Garg escreveu:
Hi.
I recently discovered PyPy and its one cool project in which I would love to be involved in some capacity :)
GReat just great
So I have a bunch of questions about the direction and status of the project
a) How is the LLVM backend coming along?
The LLVM backend is unmaintened for some time, so to ressurect it you would need to work a little on it. Recently someone commited some changes that made most of the tests passing again using LLVM 1.9 so what you would need to do is: * update LLVM to use the LLVM 2.0 sintax (specially accepting LLVM 2.0 generated code from llvm-gcc) * make threads work (I think this was one of the things the last commit removed) * make rffi work on it (this is a new way to call C code, created after the LLVM got unmaintened). * Lot's of other little things... * profit :)
b) What really are the focus areas of the project currently?
After the eu project ended people took some time off the project to recharge the batteries... and now people have started working again, and the focus is on cleanups, you can find more on pypy/doc/cleanup- todo.txt.
c) Any wishlists ?
I think that everyone has its own besides cleanup-todo, mine is suport for unicode at the RPython level, a new garbage collector, and the revival of the LLVM backend, and of course the completion of the JIT.
This is all from someone following the development of pypy from the outside, but I think I got most things right :)
[]'s -- Leonardo Santagada