Maybe not everybody here reads python-announce. So I hope, that's interesting for at least some of you. Michael
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Christian Tismer <tis...@stackless.com> > Datum: 17. Juli 2009 04:26:02 MESZ > An: undisclosed-recipients: ; > Betreff: ANN: psyco V2 > Antwort an: python-l...@python.org > > Announcing Psyco V2 source release > ---------------------------------- > > This is the long awaited announcement of Psyco V2. > > Psyco V2 is a continuation of the well-known psyco project, > which was called finished and was dis-continued by its author > Armin Rigo in 2005, in favor of the PyPy project. > > This is a new project, using Psyco's code base with permission > of Armin. Questions aqnd complaints should go to me > (tis...@stackless.com) or the mailing list > (psyco-de...@lists.sourceforge.net); > Armin is explicitly not in charge of (t)his project any longer! > > As one of the founders and an active member of the PyPy > project, I was very happy to be invited to work on Psyco > V2, by FATTOC, LLC. Psyco V2 tries to extend on the original Psyco > approach "an extension module that just makes Python faster". > > Psyco is a just-in-time compiler that accelerates arbitrary > Python code by specialization. We believe that Psyco's approach > can be carried out much further than it was tried so far, when > it's first version was abandoned. > > This first V2 release is source-only. There is no web-site, yet, > and there are no binaries for download. These will be available > in a few days on http://www.psyco.org . > > For the time being, please stick with subversion access, > building the extension module from source code. The repository > is here: > > http://codespeak.net/svn/psyco/v2/dist > > Check-out the repository, and run the setup.py script, > given that you have access to a C compiler. > > Psyco V2 will run on X86 based 32 bit Linux, 32 bit Windows, > and Mac OS X. Psyco is not supporting 64 bit, yet. But it > is well being considered. > > The current improvements are, shortly: > > - Support for Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 > - a lot of new builtins > - generators, fast and fully supported. > > More information is coming soon on http://www.psyco.org . > > This is the beginning of a series of new Psyco versions. > Many more improvements are prepared and about to be published, > soon, starting with the current version 2.0.0 . > > Stay tuned, this is just the beginning of psyco's re-birth! > > For questions about Psyco V2, please join the mailing list > > psyco-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > > or contact me on IRC: > > #psyco on irc.freenode.net . > > Psyco V2 is fundamentally supported by FATTOC, LLC. > See http://www.fattoc.com . > > Without their continuous support, this work would not have > been possible at all. I wish to express my deepest thanks > to FATTOC, for allowing me to continue on Psyco with all the > energy that this ambitious project needs, and will need. > > Further special thanks are going to > Armin Rigo, John Benediktsson, David Salomon, Miki Tebeka, > Raymond Hettinger, Fabrizio Milo, Michael Foord, > Dinu Gherman, Stephan Diehl, Laura Creighton and Andrea Tismer, > for all the support and discussions. > > Looking forward to a great future of Psyco! > > July 17, 2009 > -- > Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tis...@stackless.com> > tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on > Python's > Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ > 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ > work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 > 05 > PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 > BF04 > whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list > > Support the Python Software Foundation: > http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
