On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:19:11 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ok, i know this. The one that i do not know, is if, let'say, in 2 >> years it will be ready for seriously development, PyPy will aim to >> "replace" CPython entirely ?? We are talking about an whole new >> distribution ? > >Most certainly not. It's the goal of each language to finally become >self-hosted, and I hope we see that for python. But that's nothing that >will happen anytime soon (soon being at least half a decade), and most >probably not for the 2.x-versions.
PyPy is self-hosted and has been for some time (a year or so?). Maybe you're saying that PyPy won't replace CPython for at least five years? Could be; prediction is hard. ;) PyPy is between 1x and 3x slower than CPython for a lot of things, which isn't so much of a difference. A bigger obstacle is the availability of third-party extension modules which currently must be re-implemented in order to be available on PyPy. This could easily take half a decade without a full-time or otherwise concerted effort. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
