First I should probably introduce myself. I've been lurking on the pypy-dev list for about 6 months now, ever since I discovered the project. I think PyPy looks like it has truly awe-inspiring potential, and I'm just about getting to the point where I am able to play around with it and maybe think about contributing a bit.
Sadly sprints are a bit hard to get to from Australia though. So yes. Name's Ben. *tips hat* Quoting Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:53:39PM +1300, Peter Fraser wrote: > > Is "multiple isolated (but bridged) VM's in a single process" a > > possible general technique? > > > > If multiple cooperating processes is a reasonable response to the > > "single threaded VM meets multi-core architecture" problem -then is > > "multiple VM's in a single process" a better one? > > This is probably yet another place where PyPy could go much more easily > than CPython: multiple VMs in the same process which would by default > not have any share state, but expose primitives to the Python programmer > to explicitly share some objects. This is not trivial: there is some > research and experimentation to be done here. > > Right now, the main issue with that is that it's definitely "yet another > cool thing that we could do with PyPy". As was discussed at length, in > the current situation the core team's feeling is that it needs to focus > on providing a useful "baseline" Python interpreter. Someone else is > welcome to jump in and play, though. This is an area I would love to work on, but I think it's a bit beyond my capabilities just yet. I have a much more modest project I'd like to do with pypy more immediately. I was planning on posting here for advice after I've poked around a bit (haven't yet had time to really do anything since I did my first svn checkout the other day), in fact. I want to see if I can use pypy to make a python shell, both to become more familliar with pypy's internals and because I want one. :) But anyway, one of the things I would like to work on in the future if I get a bit more expertise is making pypy "multi-core friendly", so I guess if there are any ideas already floating around of lines of experimentation to try, I certainly would like to hear them. -- Ben Mellor ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
