[pypy-dev] DLS 2006 Call for Participation

[Michael Hudson]

On 11 Sep 2006, at 23:30, Scott Dial wrote:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>> Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:
>>>     Runtime Synthesis of High-Performance Code from Scripting  
>>> Languages
>>>     Christopher Mueller and Andrew Lumsdaine
>> This is (a) interesting (b) potentially stealable :-) and (c) looks
>> frighteningly like translator/asm/ppcgen ... I don't know whether  
>> it's
>> more surprising that they don't seem to know what I did or that I
>> didn't know about that :-)
>
> (a) yes,
> (b) not at the moment (restrictive license)

Yes, I saw that, but I get the impression that we could probably beg :)

> (c) hmm..
>
> And as for not being aware of it, well, AFAICT, this is very  
> recently demonstrated at SciPy 2006 (Aug 17th), and I think you can  
> be forgiven for not having heard of it before because I don't think  
> anyone else had either.

Oh right.  Then they should at least have heard of PPY: http:// 
www.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/PPY.html

It would at least have saved some time typing numbers out of the back  
of the PPC architecture manual...

> You can look at it all here: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~chemuell/new/ 
> sp.php

Yeah, it was that that finally convinced me that it _wasn't_ based on  
my code :-)

It also look like it might be easier to convert into RPython than my  
code.

> I haven't met Chris, but I feel like this is one of those "small  
> world" moments since he literally works in the same building as me.

Heh :)

Cheers,
mwh