Thanks, that does answer my questions.
I'm not an expert, but I did find the possibility of speeding up
python this much was an interesting one.
Let's hope they'll succeed, though I guess it may take them years. I
hope they are in it for the long run.
Bill.
On 28 Mar, 01:45, Carl Witty wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bill Hart wrote:
>
> Not to press the point, but isn't:
>
> "Our long-term proposal is to replace CPython's custom virtual machine
> with a JIT built on top of LLVM, while leaving the rest of the Python
> runtime relatively intact."
>
> the explanation of how they
Not to press the point, but isn't:
"Our long-term proposal is to replace CPython's custom virtual machine
with a JIT built on top of LLVM, while leaving the rest of the Python
runtime relatively intact."
the explanation of how they propose to get some speed out of it. In
other words they are usi
On Friday 27 March 2009 02:37:44 pm Bill Hart wrote:
> Could you be more specific about what you think these guys don't
> understand?
Not to answer your question. I'm curious about William's reasoning as well.
However, I think they don't give a lot of evidence about why they believe
their radi
(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 wrote:
>
> Could you be more specific about what you think these guys don't
> understand?
>
> To a non-python expert type th
> Could you be more specific about what you think these guys don't
> understand?
>
Were you asking me or William?
My impression from reading through the wiki is that these guys *do*
know what they're doing, contrary to what William seemed to think,
though I suspect neither of us has actually rea
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 go
> I read the article with excitement, but unfortunately that article is
> total BS -- it's reporting at its worst, and then some. The actual
> project that article is about
>
> http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
>
> seems to be massively misrepresented by the arstechnica
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Daryl Hammond wrote:
>
> I found this article on Python performance improvement interesting:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars
>
> Google's goal appears to be a 5x performance improvem
