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