Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread skip
Andrew> given the comments on python-dev i wonder if this is the first Andrew> indication that python is going to split into separate Andrew> implementations for windows and unix (via .net and llvm, Andrew> respectively)? The Windows limitations for Unladen Swallow are due primari

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread skip
Dotan> There is a decent discussion going on at slashdot: Dotan> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/1934256 >From that thread: person1> I'm not quite sure what benefits this gives that Psyco doesn't person1> already. person2> It doesn't get as stabby. :-) --

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread Mark Hammond
On 28/03/2009 9:50 PM, andrew cooke wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: [...] IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully implemented in a JIT compiled VM in a performant way, but it has issues running C extension modules. I'll be curious to see where this project goes. given the co

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread andrew cooke
Tim Roberts wrote: > [...] IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully > implemented in a JIT compiled VM in a performant way, but it has issues > running C extension modules. > > I'll be curious to see where this project goes. given the comments on python-dev i wonder if this

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread Irmen de Jong
Tim Roberts wrote: Luis M. González wrote: This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up python: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ I read this with a skeptical eye, but they have some very interesting ideas here. IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be s

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
> This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up > python: > http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ > There is a decent discussion going on at slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/1934256 -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -

Re: Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-27 Thread Tim Roberts
Luis M. González wrote: > >This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up >python: >http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ I read this with a skeptical eye, but they have some very interesting ideas here. IronPython has certainly shown that Python can be successfully implem

Unladen-Swallow: A faster python

2009-03-27 Thread Luis M . González
This is a new project started by two Google engineers to speed up python: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list