[pypy-dev] PyPy Warsaw Sprint (October 21-25th, 2014)

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Kostia,

On 27 September 2014 21:09, Костя Лопухин <kostia.lopuhin at gmail.com> wrote:
> My name is Kostia Lopuhin, and I would like to come to the sprint.

Welcome :-)

> I would like to work on JIT optimizations, I am particularly
> interested in improving short loops, but understanding that this is a
> complex topic, I just want to start with something :)
> Also maybe I can work on using to use CPython modules from PyPy, using
> this http://morepypy.blogspot.ru/2011/12/plotting-using-matplotlib-from-pypy.html
> embedding trick by Maciej Fijalkowski, I extended it a little here
> https://bitbucket.org/kostialopuhin/embed-cpython

Both are possible to do, yes.  Arguably, the most important
improvement in the JIT is to bring down the warm-up time, but that is
not a big issue for short loops.  They would however benefit from the
second-best improvement: better assembler generation.


A bientôt,

Armin.