Type-Def-ing Python

[Alex Martelli]

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> In article <1hefehe.gyyjap1my3zj0N%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
> Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ><brianlum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   ...
> >> Brett Cannon's thesis in which he tweaks the compiler and shows that
> >> type-defing python would not help the compiler achieve a 5% performace
> >> increase.
> >> 
> >> Brett Cannon, "Localized Type Inference of Atomic Types in Python":
> >> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/thesis.pdf
> >> 
> >> I was wondering if anyone had his contact information so that I could
> >> might ask him for his source code and try to use type-defing as a
> >> bug-finder.
> >
> >Brett is active on Python-Dev, so post there and you're likely to get a
> >response from him -- your subject is not OT for that list, anyway!
> 
> Oh, so this is why we got an off-topic post on python-dev.  Shouldn't you
> have told him to use Google?...  ;-)

I don't think that applying type-inferencing to such task as debugging
(and possibly applying minor tweaks to Python to help out with that) is
OT for python-dev.


Alex