Alexander Kellett wrote: ... > Agreed, my apologies, it wasn't the best way to put it. I attempted to > list all the various areas of interest but gave up after getting to the > 7th knowing full well that there are many more than that... what I > really wanted to get across was that putting *primary* emphasis on > "production quality" would be terrible for the project in my opinion.
No problem, I'm quite often falling into this trap as well. I was after speed in the first place, but the way the project was started and continued, it opened a huge lot of new opportunities, and we now really need to finish some directions, which is actually being worked on. Having such an amount of working tests already, I'm not really worried about production-readiness. It is more about completeness of needed modules, to be able to run arbitrary Python code. But even that has gone pretty far, already. So for me, a usable PyPy, in the sense of "runs very many Python programs" is more like a matter of weeks, not months. Being completely superior than CPython in speed, correctness, flexibility and everything is of course something that requires many more months. But the proof of doability is there. This should be worth enough to find sponsors, I guess. 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
