Hi all,
I thought I would start a new thread for discussing what PyPy needs to
become "production ready" (whatever that is) and succeed as a Python
implementation. This is something were outside opinions are very welcome
(of course there is no guarantee we can implement all of your wishes :-)
).
Obvious problems are:
- some missing extension modules of the stdlib. no clue which of them
are really important, depends on the application you want to run, I
guess. This can be worked on by outsiders.
- lack of 3rd-party extension-module support. This is hard to change.
Once we implement ctypes the problem will be mitigated, but not
solved: it's no fun at all to wrap a large C++ library with ctypes,
and there are lot's of existing non-ctypes based modules out there.
- Speed. The JIT is still not in a state where it really speeds up
arbitrary Python code. I expect this to change sooner or later.
However, it's not an area were a lot of people can help.
- for PyPy-JVM: bindings to allow the interaction with arbitrary Java
libraries, threading support
...
Comments?
Cheers,
Carl Friedrich
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