On 10 February 2012 06:06, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@mcnabbs.org>wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:44:42AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I am guessing in part that's a function of resistance to change, and in part it means PyPy hasn't gotten enough mindshare yet. (Raise your hand if you have PyPy installed on one of your systems. Raise your hand if you use it. Raise your hand if you are a PyPy contributor. :-)
I don't know if you actually want replies, but I'll bite. I have pypy installed (from the standard Fedora pypy package), and for a particular project it provided a 20x speedup. I'm not a PyPy contributor, but I'm a believer.
I would use PyPy everywhere if it worked with Python 3 and scipy. My apologies if this was just a rhetorical question. :)
Thanks for replying, it was not a rhetorical question. It's something I'm considering asking during my keynote at PyCon next month.
In that case ... - I have various versions of PyPy installed (regularly pull the latest working Windows build); - I use it occasionally, but most of my Python work ATM is Google App Engine-based, and the GAE SDK doesn't work with PyPy; - I'm not a PyPy contributor, but am also a believer - I definitely think that PyPy is the future and should be the base for Python4K. - I won't be at PyCon. Cheers, Tim Delaney