[Python-Dev] PEP 3146: Merge Unladen Swallow into CPython

Collin Winter collinwinter at google.com
Thu Feb 18 22:36:31 CET 2010


On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like this wording far more. It's at the very least far more precise.
> Those examples are fair enough (except the fact that PyPy is not 32bit
> x86 only, the JIT is).
[snip]
> "slower than US on some workloads" is true, while not really telling
> much to a potential reader. For any X and Y implementing the same
> language "X is faster than Y on some workloads" is usually true.
>
> To be precise you would need to include the above table in the PEP,
> which is probably a bit too much, given that PEP is not about PyPy at
> all. I'm fine with any wording that is at least correct.

I've updated the language:
http://codereview.appspot.com/186247/diff2/9005:11001/11002. Thanks
for the clarifications.

Collin Winter


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