[pypy-dev] Upcoming Sprint

Niko Matsakis niko at alum.mit.edu
Tue Apr 7 09:27:06 CEST 2009


Hello,

Due to the enormous time demands on my PhD, I've been out of touch  
lately!  I follow from the blog though :) and it seems like you guys  
have been doing great work.

I am hoping to attend the sprint in Leysin.  I would be able to come  
from the 14th until the 19th (I have to be back on the 20th, so I  
figure I'd leave 19th in the afternoon/evening).  I'd have no problem  
sharing a room, though I'm not sure if the fact that I can't stay for  
the full sprint would be an issue.

As for something to work on: besides hacking on whatever you guys  
think is important, I was considering porting one of my thesis ideas  
to Python.  It has to do with an alternate means of specifying  
parallel programs (sort of a mix between threads and futures).  Right  
now it exists in slightly different forms as both a Java and Python  
library (sorry, no web page), but I thought that by integrating it  
into the interpreter I might be able to do more, such as dynamic race  
detection.  My concern is that because this is an experimental  
research topic, it doesn't really help with the goal of preparing the  
interpreter for general use.  If it's not an appropriate topic for the  
sprint, then a compromise might be any tasks that would help me to  
learn about the interpreter so I can see better how to add my changes.

Not sure if this mail ought to go to pypy-dev or pypy-sprint, so sorry  
if I chose the wrong one!


regards,
Niko 



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