Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-28 Thread Stefan Behnel
Michael Torrie schrieb am 26.06.2015 um 19:32: > I've never heard of pythran; I'll have to check it out and see how it > compares to the ever-growing crop of Python dialect compilers. My feeling is that Python seems such a simple language at the surface that people who want to write a special purp

Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-26 Thread Michael Torrie
On 06/23/2015 10:53 AM, Laurent Pointal wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> Another beasty I've just stumbled across which you may find interesting >> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133714000687 > > Why use a JIT complation when you could use some C++ generation then > com

Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-23 Thread Laurent Pointal
Mark Lawrence wrote: > Another beasty I've just stumbled across which you may find interesting > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133714000687 Why use a JIT complation when you could use some C++ generation then compilation as Python module, like with Pythran ? https://git

Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-21 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 21 Jun 2015 10:29:32 +0100, BartC writes: >It also puts in a good dig at PyPy by including one benchmark where it >is 6 times as slow as CPython! > >It's not clear why it's particularly useful for astrophysics. > >-- >Bartc It's not that good a dig, as they say that it took

Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-21 Thread BartC
On 21/06/2015 01:29, Mark Lawrence wrote: Another beasty I've just stumbled across which you may find interesting http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133714000687 Blimey, that's a lot of waffle in there, but I suppose that's to be expected from a published paper. I think th

HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

2015-06-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
Another beasty I've just stumbled across which you may find interesting http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133714000687 -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/