(In reference to http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars)
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Could you be more specific about what you think these guys don't > understand? > > To a non-python expert type there isn't much difference between the > article and the wiki information. > > I was very impressed at the goals as spelled out on the wiki and they > seem to have a decent roadmap up. > > Is it the goals themselves which you feel are bollucks or do you think > they don't understand the technical workings of python? Perhaps, as a > non-expert, I won't understand, but I am interested to hear, if you > have the time to explain. All I wrote before was "there's not much on that wiki that gives me confidence the project members know what they are doing." I mean that literally, i.e., that there wasn't anything that gives me confidence that they know what they're doing. I didn't mean to say "I think they don't know what they are doing," since I don't know if they do or not. Why should a a few guys who read some papers be able to massively beat (a factor of 5!?) the work of the entire Python development community over 15 years? I certainly didn't see anything to convince me that they can pull that off. I'm certainly not saying they won't or can't. In fact, I really hope they do since it would benefit us all. It's just that with Python every few months it seems like another project pops up with the goal to speed up Python by a factor of 5-10, and they fall by the wayside after a few years... except Cython, which actually succeeds. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
