Hi John I understand why you're bringing this up, but it's a huge project on it's own, worth at least a couple months worth of work. Without a dedicated effort from someone I'm worried it would not go anywhere. It's kind of separated from the other goals of the summit
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:16 PM, John Camara <john.m.cam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nathaniel, > > I would like to suggest one more topic for the workshop. I see a big need > for a library (jffi) similar to cffi but that provides a bridge to Java > instead of C code. The ability to seamlessly work with native Java data/code > would offer a huge improvement when python code needs to work with the > Spark/Hadoop ecosystem. The current mechanisms which involve serializing > data to/from Java can kill performance for some applications and can render > Python unsuitable for these cases. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
