[pypy-dev] Release something?

[Stephan Diehl]

On Thursday 27 February 2003 15:35, you wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> One more e-mail to remind you that one of the goal of the sprint was to
> release something at the end of the week.
>
> Did you realize that the interpreter (with the trivial object space)
> already works nicely enough to run the following:

No, actually not.
This is brilliant.

>
> # python interactive.py
> Python 2.2.2 (#2, Nov 14 2002, 17:24:26)
> [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.68mdk)] in pypy
> PyPyConsole / TrivialObjSpace
>
> >>> import dis
> >>> dis.dis(dis.dis)
>
> I particularly enjoy the slooooooowness of the resulting disassembly dump
> :-)
>
> Do you think, just for the fun, that this would be worth a "release"?  It
> would show the "outside world" that we actually got something "serious"
> done.  Of course "serious" needs quote, given the speed of the result, but
> at this point everybody should know that it was planned, and that we are
> dreaming about top speeds involving some rather obscure translations
> (probably invoking strange beasts from the theory of Computer Science).

Well, at least it should be make known (but then, all the important people 
are reading this list anyway :-)

Stephan

>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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