Re: Postmortem on Unladen Swallow

2011-04-14 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> There's a postmortem on the failure of Unladen Swallow by one of the > developers at: > > http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html This outcome of things is really a testament to the hard work of the pypy folks. They, a volunteer bunch, beat google! And that's somethi

Re: Postmortem on Unladen Swallow

2011-04-13 Thread Dan Stromberg
I'm not sure I'd call it a failure. It didn't achieve the speedup they hoped for, but they did successfully get CPython running overtop of LLVM. That is, their intended approach didn't pan out, but they successfully implemented their approach. And just as importantly, Pypy was looking like it'd

Postmortem on Unladen Swallow

2011-04-13 Thread John Nagle
There's a postmortem on the failure of Unladen Swallow by one of the developers at: http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list