Il Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:28:55 -0700, Qrees ha scritto: > Hello > > As my Master's dissertation I chose Cpython optimization. That's why i'd > like to ask what are your suggestions what can be optimized. Well, I > know that quite a lot. I've downloaded the source code (I plan to work > on Cpython 2.6 and I've downloaded 2.6.3 release). By looking at the > code I've found comment's like "this can be optimized by..." etc. but > maybe you guide me what should I concentrate on in my work? > > I've 6-7 month for this and If I create something decent I can publish > it. > > Thank you in advance for any help
If you don't know yet, you could find interesting this project: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ They too are trying to improve CPython speed. If you are thinking of language variations that trade some flexiblity for speed, you might be interested in Cython: http://www.cython.org/ As a simple and plain python user, I would value a version of cython that can be used to built faster executables out of almost-python code (that is python code with a few additional restructions). Maybe using typing inference to avoid declaring explicitely the variable types. Another interesting place to go is pypy : http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/ pypy/doc/ . They too have developed a restriced version of python (RPython, I think) which should be faster than CPython. They don't work with CPython code base, but could give you ideas on what are the bottlenecks of python as a language. Ciao ----- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
