Author: Simon Cross <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4947:b28691743c94 Date: 2013-02-28 19:53 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/b28691743c94/
Log: Tweak language a bit. diff --git a/blog/draft/10years.rst b/blog/draft/10years.rst --- a/blog/draft/10years.rst +++ b/blog/draft/10years.rst @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ * At some point we decided to have a JavaScript backend so one could compile RPython programs to JavaScript and run them in a browser. Turned out it was a horrible idea. -* Another option for using RPython was to write CPython C extensions. Again, turned out RPython +* Another option we tried was using RPython to write CPython C extensions. Again, it turned out RPython is a bad language and instead we made a fast JIT, so you don't have to write C extensions. * We made N attempts to use LLVM. Seriously, N is 4 or 5. But we haven't fully given up yet :-) @@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ a restricted subset with static types, called rctypes for RPython. Turned out to be horrible. Twice. -* We were very hopeful about JIT generator from the beginning. But the first one failed miserably, +* We were very hopeful about creating a JIT generator from the beginning. But the first one failed miserably, generating too much assembler. The second failed too. The third first burned down and then failed. However, we managed to release a working JIT in 2010, against all odds. * Martijn Faassen used to ask us "how fast is PyPy" so we decided to name an option enabling all - optimizations --faassen. --no-faassen was added automatically doing nothing. Then we + optimizations --faassen. --no-faassen was added automatically doing nothing. Later we decided to grow up and renamed it to -O2 and -Ojit. -* the first time the Python interpreter successfully compiled to C, it segfaulted because the code generator used signed chars instead of unsigned chars +* The first time the Python interpreter successfully compiled to C, it segfaulted because the code generator used signed chars instead of unsigned chars. Cheers, fijal, arigo, cfbolz and the pypy team. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
