[pypy-dev] Extended goals

[Christian Tismer]

holger krekel wrote:

> [Christian Tismer Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:02:24PM +0200]

[many more binaries than expected]

> btw, i forgot all about it: this is mainly the Zope-Database (ZODB) 
> which is independent from Zope and has quite some parts written 
> in C, for performance reasons ASFAIK.  I'd say they are
> applying a common technique with high-level-languages:
> rapidly prototype in Python and reimplement the 
> speed-relevant parts in C (and maintain it).  
> It's rather obvious how PyPy could help here :-)

Absolutely. Zope can reverse its path and move
its core back to where it belongs: Python.

This is what is going to happen if we really
get the project funded, and a few of us might
work almost fulltime on PyPy:
All C extensions can probably envision their
death, sooner or later.
And this is such a huge achievement, since the
amount of man hours saved in the future
is countable infinite. :-)

Probably a selling argument which should get
into pypy-funding...

ciao - chris

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