On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [..] > > What I am more worried is that if Google produces a CPython > implementation on *nix which is say 50-100 times faster than > the main CPython implementation for most common operations, > then with Google's influence and muscle, wouldn't this become > the choice of many high end users and not the regular CPython ? > That won't bode well for the future of Python as a true "free" > language - free as in the sense of 90% of the work not coming > from a corporate entity here. Technically it is still free since they > have to keep the license compatibility, but implementation-wise, > it is Google-Python. In short I am worried about a major "fork" > in Python. > I personally considered unladen-swallow a fork (although they claim on their site that it's a branch rather than a fork). Also, given the fact that they're enhancing a version of Python (2.x) which the official guys are trying to move people off, it was a problem. With this announcement though (which as of now looks like vapourware), Py3k will have performance benefits as well. That would be an extra reason to move. > > There is not much chance of all these patches getting merged > to CPython mainline. First of all I don't think they should approach > LLVM as a panacea to fix all Python VM ills - which they seem to be > doing. > Given the size of project, you're probably right but atleast there seems to be a nascent plan to do that. > > It would be better if we see an experimental branch of CPython > branched from py3k trunk to which many of the more experimental > and incompatible bytecode changes go from Unladen Swallow. But > as I pointed out earlier, I am a lurker in pydev and have not seen any > such discussion yet. > This is what Unladen swallow has done but with two differences 0. They branched 2.x rather than 3 1. They have completely separate repo and project site (which makes it like IronPython or Jython rather than a branch of CPython itself). The current announcement seems to be a unifying one and that's a good sign. Whether it will happen is a different question. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
