[pypy-dev] PyPy current status

[Alex Gaynor]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am preparing the usual "PyPy status talk" which I'll give to the
> upcoming Pycon Italy, which is going to cover what happened in the last two
> years of PyPy.
>
> If you are interested, the draft slides are here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/src/tip/talk/pycon-italy-2014/talk.rst?at=extradoc
>
> In the talk, I will to give an overview of the current status of the
> various subprojects, so I'd be glad if you could help because you surely
> know better than me the status of the area of your competence :)
>
> David: what is the current status of PyPy on ARM? Should I say "it just
> works" or there is something more to add? What about performance?
>
> Matti, Brian: what about numpy? Since people like numbers, what percentage
> of numpy we can consider completed?
>
> Philip: same question for py3k. Is it still considered beta quality or we
> can say it's stable?
>
> Alex, Maciej: I'll also briefly talk about other frontends, so Topaz and
> Hippy. How much complete are they? What are the performance? I know that
> hippy is still actively developed, but what about Topaz?
>
>
Topaz has almost all Ruby syntax implemented, and many methods/builtin
types, but very little of the Ruby stdlib.

I'm no longer actively working on it (at some point I'll write a blog post
about that).


> Other than what I asked, I'll also highlight CFFI and STM. If anyone has
> ideas for other cool things which happened in PyPy since 2012, suggestions
> are welcome :)
>
> thank you very much!
> Anto
>

Alex

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