[BangPypers] unladen-swallow

[Sam's Lists]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <
abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Shekhar <pythonic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Already slashdotted and many of us should already be knowing but could
> > not resist posting.
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars
> > http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
> > Apart from performance boost there is also mention of removal of GIL.
> > Very exciting.
> >
> > Would love to hear opinions of bangpypers.
>


> I also
> liked their focus on improving cPickle performance, which is an area
> that badly needs improvement.
>

Bingo!  It seems like cPickle is fast until you play with something like a
recent version of simplejson...now that's fast.  And then it's like, boy is
cPickle slow.  Pretty soon you're jsonifying everything.  :)
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