Alex Martelli wrote:
[...]Michael Tobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I should be failing in my duty as Chairman if I didn't remind readers at this point that they can hear Armin Rigo's talk "PyPy and Type Inference" at PyCon at 5:30 on Wednesday March 23.Let me add that I remain unconvinced that a language cannot combine the best features of Python with very high performance, which is ultimately
I'm also unconvinced. Fortunately, so is the EU, so they have approved very substantial financing for the pypy project, which aims in good part exactly at probing this issue. If any single individual can be called the ideator of pypy, I think it's Armin Rigo, well-known for his excellent psyco specializing-compiler for Python: the key research thesis behind both projects is that a higher-level, dynamic language need not have performance inferior to a lower-level one and indeed may well beat it.
http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2005/register.html
While Alex is not necessarily too modest to mention it he might forget that he is also giving three talks to PyCon. I believe this is the first year he has been able to attend PyCon, so delegates are definitely in for a treat this year.
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