On Jan 18, 8:56 am, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > Since this is a PyPy bashing thread, maybe it's an appropriate place > to suggest that the project has got a little bit waylaid by exploring > cool things instead of releasing a useful final result? > > I am not questioning rpython directly - the case for something like > that is obvious. But there's a question of balance. It's possible to > go on building ever more complex systems which are theoretically > justified, but which postpone ever finishing the job. At some point > there has to be a "good enough". > > To some extent I am playing devil's advocate here, but as an outside > who looked at PyPy a while back, my uninformed and naive impression > was that the project was suffering from the kid of issues I have > caricatured above.... > > Andrew > > PS I guess you are aware of worse is better etc? I think this may > also be a US/Euro culture issue...
It's worth adding that, regarding the goal of having a faster python, we have had for a long time a solid and useful proof-of-concept in psyco. Pypy rolls up on this concept and adds many more useful features, not all of them related to speed but to flexibility. I have no doubt the project will be succesful. The question is how long we will have to wait... Luis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
