Hi scipy-ers - Some of you may remember CorePy from previous SciPy conferences. Feedback from those meetings was very helpful for planning the future of CorePy. Without further ado... Announcing CorePy 1.0 - http://www.corepy.org We are pleased to announce the latest release of CorePy. CorePy is a complete system for developing machine-level programs in Python. CorePy lets developers build and execute assembly-level programs interactively from the Python command prompt, embed them directly in Python applications, or export them to standard assembly languages. CorePy's straightforward APIs enable the creation of complex, high-performance applications that take advantage of processor features usually inaccessible from high-level scripting languages, such as multi-core execution and vector instruction sets (SSE, VMX, SPU). This version addresses the two most frequently asked questions about CorePy: 1) Does CorePy support x86 processors? Yes! CorePy now has extensive support for 32/64-bit x86 and SSE ISAs on Linux and OS X*. 2) Is CorePy Open Source? Yes! CorePy now uses the standard BSD license. Of course, CorePy still supports PowerPC and Cell BE SPU processors. In fact, for this release, the Cell run-time was redesigned from the ground up to remove the dependency on IBM's libspe and now uses the system-level interfaces to work directly with the SPUs (and, CorePy is still the most fun way to program the PS3). CorePy is written almost entirely in Python. Its run-time system does not rely on any external compilers or assemblers. If you have the need to write tight, fast code from Python, want to demystify machine-level code generation, or just miss the good-old days of assembly hacking, check out CorePy! And, if you don't believe us, here's our favorite user quote: "CorePy makes assembly fun again!" __credits__ = """ CorePy is developed by Chris Mueller, Andrew Friedley, and Ben Martin and is supported by the Open Systems Lab at Indiana University. Chris can be reached at cmueller[underscore]dev[at]yahoo[dot]com. """ __footnote__ = """ *Any volunteers for a Windows port? :) """