Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4217:e3760e1fe911 Date: 2012-06-25 10:26 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/e3760e1fe911/
Log: (fijal, arigo) Draft diff --git a/talk/ep2012/stm/draft.rst b/talk/ep2012/stm/draft.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/talk/ep2012/stm/draft.rst @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Status since last EuroPython +---------------------------- + +* 4 releases since last EuroPython: PyPy 1.6 - 1.9 + +* 1.7x speed improvement overall, lower memory footsprint + +* more importantly: we are now reasonably fast on most programs + +* packaging: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Homebrew, Gentoo, ArchLinux, ... + (thanks to all the packagers) + +* We joined the SFC (Bradley successfully fighting U.S. bureaucracy) and + are happy about it + +* funding: new model, more than 100'000$ in donations, + both from a large number of individuals and a few large companies + and the Python Software Foundation + +* Windows (but still no 64-bit) + +* Jit hooks, JitViewer + +* cpyext moved from 'alpha' to 'beta': it runs e.g. a big part of PyOpenSSL and lxml + + +Current problems +---------------- + +* still slow warmup time + +* calling C is still an issue + + +Future +------ + +* JIT backends: ARMv7, PPC64 + +* numpy + +* cffi (google "CFFI 0.1") + +* stackless? Unclear status, but work might get finished + +* stm + _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
