>> The goals of the pypy project seems to be to create a fast python >> implementation. I may be wrong about this, as the goals seem a little >> amorphous if you look at their home page. > > The home page itself is ambiguous, and does oversell the performance > aspect. The *actual* goal as outlined by their official docs is to > implement Python in Python, at every level.
Ok fair enough. In some ways I see that as more of a purely intellectual exercise than the practical endeavor that I assumed the project was originally. However, one of the links I was sent had one of the devs talking about using the translation process to make C/Java/LLVM implementations out of the same interpreter code. I'll say that makes a lot of sense. Another question I was wondering about is whether they plan on maintaining good C bindings? Will existing bindings for third party libraries be able to work? Also, are they going to do away with the GIL? The python devs seem to consider the GIL a non-issue, though they may change their mind in 3 years when we all have 32 core desktops, until then getting rid of the GIL would make pypy pretty attractive in some quarters. I know the scons project was running into GIL issues. Finally, I'm pretty unclear on what versions of python that pypy is targeting. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
