On Oct 22, 12:28 am, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > The Shed Skin people would welcome some help. > > http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/
People? It's one guy. It apparently started out as a Master's thesis as well. ;) I am a great admirer of the Shed Skin project, and I would be as happy as anyone to see it progress. However, it seems to me that Shed Skin is at a stage where what it really needs is plain old "more work". (I don't want to call it grunt work, but it's things like more testing, implementing more library support, maintaining the Windows build, etc. Very worthy and worthwhile work, but tough to pass off as academic graduate work.) To the original poster: I am not sure if this is too ambitious for your time frame, but one thing many real-world Python users would LOVE is for some way to get rid of the GIL (while still retaining thread safety, single-core performance, etc.). If you could patch CPython to make it GIL-less, I think you would have academically publishable material as well as being a hero in the Python community. :D John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
