[pypy-dev] Project suggestions

Boria Feigin boria at fbg.uklinux.net
Fri Sep 23 17:28:46 CEST 2005


Thanks for the quick reply.

> >Can anyone suggest pointers to areas of PyPy that need work? Or, better
> >yet, ideas that need further development -- research in literature,
> >prototyping, and implementation?
> 
> I will try to answer this - maybe the others can fill in?
> 
> First of all - thank you for your interest in PyPy! We have lots of work 
Great!

> ;-) - the main question is how familiar you are with Python specifically 
Reasonably familiar (a couple of university projects, about 3.5K lines
in total), though there's definitely room to improve :)

> and wether you have read the documentation that exists on Codespeak?
Not yet. I'll do it this weekend.

> As to the research aspect - we are just now entering our second phase of 
> the funded (EU) side of PyPy and the upcoming 9 months is all about 
> optimizations and exploration so there should be interesting stuff to do 
> that could fit well for a final year project.
:)

> In October, 10-16th to be more exact we will meet up to sprint in Paris 
> and we will devote some time to plan the work in phase 2 in some more 
> detail. Maybe we could get back to you after that?
> 
> Meanwhile (if you havent done so already) you could read some of the 
> documentation and identify areas of interest to you?
Sounds good. I'll read the docs, subscribe to the list, and send another
e-mail about 15th or 16th of October.

> >Thanks for your time.
> >
> >Please CC me -- I am not on the list.
> >
> >-- 
> >Boris
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Beatrice Düring
> Assistant project manager/PyPy
> The non techie person ;-)

-- 
Boris



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