[pypy-dev] Re: profiling translation process?

[holger krekel]

Hi Michael, 

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:05 +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> holger krekel <hpk at trillke.net> writes:
> > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:10 +0200, Armin Rigo wrote:
> >> Michael and me have been polishing a new profiler posted on the CPython
> >> SF patch tracker, and I've got preliminary results on translate_pypy.
> >> I'll need to run it again now that a few last bugs in the profiler have
> >> been fixed.  (Also, the profiler doesn't support dumping data to a file
> >> at the moment.)
> >
> > Yes, i saw your works, good stuff.  Sidenote: i guess it's sometimes
> > overlooked that PyPy developers have sometimes been quite involved
> > with CPython improvements.
> 
> Well, I don't know who you might be thinking of as overlooking it; I'm
> certainly aware that quite a few bugs in CPython (mostly in obscure
> corner cases, it has to be said) have been found and fixed as a result
> of PyPy.

I am not thinking of you but the general public (whoever that is :-) 

> I don't know if mentioning this sort of thing will earn us brownie
> point with the EU (it certainly seems a /fairly/ expensive way of
> getting a code review :).

I guess it wouldn't hurt if the EU gets to know that we are 
actively interacting with other (python) communities.  It's not
that we are claiming that PyPy is a project to fix bugs in CPython 
which would indeed be a rather expensive code review :-) 

cheers, 

    holger