[Chicago] Introduction and possible presentations for Feb 14th.

Adam Forsyth adam at adamforsyth.net
Wed Jan 30 14:42:59 CET 2013


+1 to Snakebite.

While the parallelization talk sounds awesome, and I would love to hear it,
I think the Snakebite talk might dovetail better with the community / Aaron
Swartz focus I think people have been considering for the February meeting?


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> >
> >     As luck would have it, it's highly likely I'll be visiting the Windy
> >     City on the weekend of Feb 15th, so I figured why not try and come a
> >     day earlier and attend the meetup on the 14th.
> >
> >     Little bit of background: I'm a Python and Subversion committer and
> >     also the founder of Snakebite (www.snakebite.net).  I'd be up for
> >     giving a presentation if time allows.  I have two in mind:
> >
> >         - A general presentation on Snakebite -- I've given these in the
> >           past and they've always been well received.  Not technical,
> >           should have wide appeal.
> >
> >         - A pre-PyCon presentation on a little project I've been working
> >           on the past month: "Parallelizing the Python Interpreter: The
> >           Quest for True Asynchronicity".
> >
> >           Sensational title aside, this presentation details the work
> >           I've done to "parallelize" the Python interpreter; allowing
> >           Python code to exploit all CPU cores without impeding normal
> >           single-threaded performance.
> >
> >           (This work is comparable to previous attempts to remove the
> >           GIL with fine-grained locking, as well as the STM work being
> >           done in PyPy.  My approach differs from both: I don't remove
> >           the GIL nor do I introduce fine-grained locking (which is why
> >           single-threaded execution doesn't take a performance hit).)
> >
> >           This would be a very technical presentation.  There's even a
> >           bit of assembly language involved (well, compiler intrinsics,
> >           at least).  However, it's a pretty cool topic, so even if you
> >           don't grok the low-level CPython internal stuff, there will be
> >           lots of other interesting stuff at a higher level.
> >
> >     Look forward to meeting you all!  (Chicago is probably my favourite
> >     city in the US.)
>
> Huge +1 on both, but a bigger +1 on the parallel talk.
>
> However, I'm not 100% sure yet if I can make it to the meeting :(
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