[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: address the review
fijal
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Thu Dec 8 23:25:37 CET 2011
Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r3977:3977810e2b86
Date: 2011-12-09 00:24 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/3977810e2b86/
Log: address the review
diff --git a/blog/draft/matplotlib.rst b/blog/draft/matplotlib.rst
--- a/blog/draft/matplotlib.rst
+++ b/blog/draft/matplotlib.rst
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
* Speaking of which, you need a reasonably recent PyPy.
-* The approach is generally portable (XXX: why not?), however the implementation is not. Works
- on 64bit linux, would not bet for anything else.
+* The approach is generally portable, however the implementation has been
+ tested only on 64bit linux. Few tweaks might be required.
* You need to install python2.6, the python2.6 development headers, and have
numpy and matplotlib installed on that python.
@@ -72,10 +72,11 @@
It's just a matter of extending a hack into a working library.
To summarize, while we're busy making numpypy better and faster, it seems
-that all heavy lifting on the C side can be done using an embedded Python
+that all external libraries on the C side can be done using an embedded Python
interpreter with relatively little effort. To get to that point, I spent
a day and a half to learn how to embed CPython, with very little prior
-experience in the CPython APIs. (XXX: this should make clear that you can use it for integration, but for speed you should keep stuff all in PyPy)
+experience in the CPython APIs. Of course you should still keep as much as
+possible in PyPy to make it nice and fast :)
Cheers,
fijal
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