[Python-Dev] GSoC: speed.python.org

[DasIch]

Hello Guys,
I'm interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code this year
and I've been looking at projects in the Wiki, particularly
speed.pypy.org[1] as I'm very interested in the current VM
development. However given my knowledge that project raised several
questions:

1. Up until now the only 3.x Implementation is CPyhon. IronPython,
Jython and PyPy don't support it - and to my knowledge won't get
support for it during or before GSoC - and could not benefit from it.
It seems that a comparison between a Python 2.x implementation and a
3.x implementation is rather pointless; so is this intended to be
rather an additional "feature" to have 3.x there as well?

2. As a follow-up to 1: It is not specified whether the benchmarks
should be ported using a tool such as 2to3, if this should not happen
or if this is up to the student, this needs clarification. This may be
more clear if it were considered under which "umbrella" this project
is actually supposed to happen; will those ported benchmarks end up in
CPython or will there be a separate repository for all VMs?

3. Several benchmarks (at least the Django and Twisted ones) have
dependencies which are not (yet) ported to 3.x and porting those
dependencies during GSoC as part of this project is an unrealistic
goal. Should those benchmarks, at least for now, be ignored?

[1]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SpeedDotPythonDotOrg