Author: Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5050:b29cb4d623f0 Date: 2013-09-13 15:47 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/b29cb4d623f0/
Log: Restart, putting more focus on STM and less on the Status of PyPy part diff --git a/talk/pycon2014/abstract.rst b/talk/pycon2014/abstract.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/talk/pycon2014/abstract.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Software Transactional Memory with PyPy +======================================= + +Description +----------- + +PyPy is a fast alternative Python implementation. Software +Transactional Memory is a current academic research topic. Put the two +together --brew for a couple of years-- and we obtain a version of PyPy +that runs on multiple cores, without the infamous Global Interpreter +Lock (GIL). It has been freshly released in beta, including integration +with the Just-in-Time compiler. + +The talk will also include a "general status of PyPy" part. + + +Audience +-------- + + +Objectives +---------- + + +Detailed abstract +----------------- + + +Outline +------- + + +Additional notes +---------------- diff --git a/talk/pycon2014/talk.rst b/talk/pycon2014/talk.rst deleted file mode 100644 --- a/talk/pycon2014/talk.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -The status of PyPy -================== - -PyPy is an alternative Python interpreter. It is seriously fast, but -progress purely in that direction is reaching limits. Instead, it is -growing support for a larger part of the Python ecosystem: a long list -of common libraries are going from "unsupported" to "badly supported" to -"well supported". We also have beta Python 3 support. In short, try -PyPy today :-) - -On the research front, Transactional Memory seems to work as a way to -run programs on multiple cores. It is coming along, fully integrated -with the JIT compiler. We will show various examples, including -versions of event libraries (like Twisted, Tornado, greenlet...) that -run existing non-multithreaded programs on multiple cores. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit