PyPy Progress (and Psyco)

[JanC]

andrew cooke wrote:

> Fuzzyman wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 3:46 pm, Gerhard Häring <g... at ghaering.de> wrote:
> [...]
>>> Me too. I doubt it, though. From an outside view, the project seems to
>>> lack focus. To me, it looks like a research platform, and producing a
>>> successor to CPython seems to be just one out of a dozen projects.
> [...]
>> Well, I know the guys involved and they are focused on making PyPy a
>> practical (and importantly a faster) alternative to CPython. It has
>> just taken a long time - but is finally showing real progress.
>>
>> They did get distracted along the way, but one of things that happened
>> last year was a culling of a lot of the side projects that made it
>> harder to make progress on the core goals.
>
> This is so good to hear.  I had exactly the same concerns as Gerhard. 
> Thanks for posting some information.

I think the period as a research platform (IIRC the project was funded by a
research grant from the EU after all[*]) was maybe necessary to get where
they are now...?


[*] I'm happy to see at least this part of my taxes being spent for
something good...  ;-)

-- 
JanC