[pypy-svn] r20983 - pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly

[mwh at codespeak.net]

Author: mwh
Date: Sat Dec 10 00:00:02 2005
New Revision: 20983

Added:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/summary-2005-12-09.txt
Modified:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/index.txt
Log:
This Week in PyPy 6 -- you have maybe 20 minutes to complain before it gets
sent out :)


Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/index.txt
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--- pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/index.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/index.txt	Sat Dec 10 00:00:02 2005
@@ -67,9 +67,16 @@
    - Background EU-related work
    - Where did PyPy-sync go?
 
+ * `Week ending 2005-12-09`_
+
+   - The Sprint!
+   - IRC Summary
+   - EU-related Talks
+
 .. _`Week ending 2005-11-04`: summary-2005-11-04.html
 .. _`Week ending 2005-11-11`: summary-2005-11-11.html
 .. _`Week ending 2005-11-18`: summary-2005-11-18.html
 .. _`Week ending 2005-11-25`: summary-2005-11-25.html
 .. _`Week ending 2005-12-02`: summary-2005-12-02.html
+.. _`Week ending 2005-12-09`: summary-2005-12-09.html
 

Added: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/summary-2005-12-09.txt
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+=======================
+  This Week in PyPy 6
+=======================
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This is the sixth of what will hopefully be many summaries of what's
+been going on in the world of PyPy in the last week.  I'd still like
+to remind people that when something worth summarizing happens to
+recommend if for "This Week in PyPy" as mentioned on:
+
+    http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/weekly/
+
+where you can also find old summaries.  This week features the first
+IRC summary from Pieter Holtzhausen, a feature that will hopefully
+continue.
+
+There were about 150 commits to the pypy section of codespeak's
+repository in the last week (a relatively small number for a sprint
+week -- lots of thinking going on here).
+
+
+The Sprint!
+===========
+
+This is covered in more detail in the `sprint report`_, but seems to be
+going well.  There has been work on the JIT, supporting larger integers and
+sockets in RPython, making the stackless option more useful, performance,
+compiler flexibility, documentation and probably even more.
+
+.. _`sprint report`: http://please/write/me
+
+
+IRC Summary
+===========
+
+Thanks again to Pieter for this.  We need to talk about formatting :)
+
+**Friday** http://tismerysoft.de/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/%23pypy.log.20051202::
+
+  [00:04] Arigo states it is time to merge the PBC branch. Merging henceforth
+          commences.
+  [15:46] Pedronis and mwh discusses the simplification of the backend 
+          selection of the translator. Some translator planning documents 
+          checked in later.
+
+**Saturday** http://tismerysoft.de/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/%23pypy.log.20051203::
+
+  [15:45] Stakkars mentions the idea he posted to pypy-dev, that involves
+          the substitution of CPython modules piecewise with pypy generated
+          modules. Pedronis replies that he has thought of a similar
+          approach to integrate pypy and Jython, but that this effort needs
+          to be balanced with the fact that the pypy JIT currently needs
+          attention.
+
+**Sunday** http://tismerysoft.de/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/%23pypy.log.20051204::
+
+  [14:03] Stakkars asks about the necessity of 3 stacks in the pypy
+          system. One for floats, ints and addresses. After remarks about
+          easier CPU support, Arigo replies that there is simply no sane
+          way to do RPython with a single one.
+  [18:26] Gromit asks how ready pypy is for production usage. He is
+          interested in pypy as a smalltalk-like environment, since its
+          objects spaces is reminiscent of smalltalk vm images.
+  [18:31] Stakkars states that he believes the project should postpone
+          advanced technologies, in favour of getting the groundwork to a
+          level where the project really becomes a CPython alternative.
+
+**Monday** http://tismerysoft.de/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/%23pypy.log.20051205::
+
+  [01:44] Pedronis running counting microbenchmarks, one 4.7 times slower
+          than CPython, the other one 11.3 times. Function calling takes
+          its toll in the latter.
+
+**Tuesday, Wednesday**::
+
+  [xx:xx] Sprint background radiation. Braintone rings like a bell. Not
+          much to report.
+
+**Thursday** http://tismerysoft.de/pypy/irc-logs/pypy/%23pypy.log.20051208::
+
+  [17:55] Stakkars guess that RPython may get basic coroutine support, and
+          is excited about that.
+  [18:05] Stakkars votes for having stackless enabled all the time. The
+          advantages:
+             - real garbage collection
+             - iterator implementation without clumsy state machines
+  [20:19] Rhamphoryncus wonders whether dynamic specialization (e.g. psyco)
+          can possibly improve memory layout.
+  [20:46] Sabi is glad that long long is now supported (courtesy of mwh and
+          Johahn). He yanks out his work around.
+
+
+EU-related Talks
+================
+
+On Monday Holger spoke at a German EU office workshop in Bonn and two days
+later he, Alastair and Bea spoke at a more union-wide EU workshop in
+Brussels.  Both talks were very well received and while ostensibly we were
+telling the EU about our project, we gained much immediately useful
+information about how the EU actually adminsters projects such as ours.