Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r52248:70757df2dfad Date: 2012-02-08 20:01 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/70757df2dfad/
Log: update the release announcement diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-1.8.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-1.8.0.rst --- a/pypy/doc/release-1.8.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-1.8.0.rst @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 32/64 or -Windows 32. Windows 64 work is ongoing, but not yet natively supported. +Windows 32. Windows 64 work has been stalled, we would welcome a volunteer +to handle that. .. _`pypy 1.8 and cpython 2.7.1`: http://speed.pypy.org @@ -52,11 +53,36 @@ * a lot of other minor changes + Right now the `numpy` module is available under both `numpy` and `numpypy` + names. However, because it's incomplete, you have to `import numpypy` first + before doing any imports from `numpy`. + +* New JIT hooks that allow you to hook into the JIT process from your python + program. There is a `brief overview`_ of what they offer. + * Since the last release there was a significant breakthrough in PyPy's fundraising. We now have enough funds to work on first stages of `numpypy`_ - and `py3k`_ + and `py3k`_. We would like to thank again to everyone who donated. + It's also probably worth noting, we're considering donations for the STM + project. + +Ongoing work +============ + +As usual, there is quite a bit of ongoing work that either didn't make it to +the release or is not ready yet. Highlights include: + +* Specialized type instances - allocate instances as efficient as C structs, + including type specialization + +* More numpy work + +* Software Transactional Memory, you can read more about `our plans`_ + +.. _`brief overview`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/jit-hooks.html .. _`numpy status page`: http://buildbot.pypy.org/numpy-status/latest.html .. _`numpy status update blog report`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/numpypy-status-update.html .. _`numpypy`: http://pypy.org/numpydonate.html .. _`py3k`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html +.. _`our plans`: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/transactional-memory-ii.html _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
