Alexander Kellett wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> The perception could easily arise that there is no interest in >> giving an >> impression of commitment, and thus not to expect a production-quality >> Python interpreter in the foreseeable future. Is this perception >> correct? Are people even talking about giving a level of commitment, >> or >> is this whole discussion uninteresting to the project altogether? I'd >> like to know so I can adjust my own perception accordingly. > > This thread is getting a bit repetitive.
Indeed. > Until PyPy is in some non-marginal manner much better than cpython no > one will be interested anyway. This is true, but in a different way than you might think. Many people have their own perception of "good". But good is not simply only reading like "speed". There are lots of other criteria, where PyPy is already very good at, with no single competitor. Of course, the broad audience wants everything at once, including out-performing CPython and implementing everything at the same time. I think that is quite much to expect. And very few people valuate all the new possibilities with PyPy's configurable features at all. Anyway, "no one will be interested" is just a thoughtless statement. There are lots of directions where PyPy might successfully move to. With or without Jit or Gc, with or without supporting tons of extension modules or even by finding ways to just wrap them. There are already many people interested in what PyPy can do today, and I want to call this being successful right now. cheers - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9A : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax +49 30 80 90 57 05 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
