Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > Hi, for a student project, we are evaluating the possibility to > experiment with some ideas on PyPy. > > Even if it is a student project, we have high expectations (our aim is > to really improve PyPy's speed, if possible). But we are still trying > to choose which features to implement (we started with some nice > ideas, but part of them is already implemented). > > We will work for something like 2 months on a separate branch - maybe > we can give readonly access to the source code repository, but write > access would be a problem for our exam, for obvious reasons. > > Do you have any possibility to host a development branch for this project? > > To let you know who we are, I'll present us: > > - I, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso, am a past Linux kernel hacker, I > worked also with Java, C++, and a bit of Python, and I am currently a > graduate student at Aarhus University, Denmark; > - Sigurd is a PhD candidate at Aarhus University, Denmark, currently > working, among other things, on a cryptography research project in > Python (viff.dk). > > - our professor is Lars Bak, the lead architect of the Google V8 > Javascript engine, on which we implemented various optimizations in > the previous months. > > We are obviously open to suggestions, and we have been looking at the > status blog and at various blogs. > > It seems that there is still space for improvement in the space of > garbage collectors, as mentioned here: > - http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/talk/osdc2008/paper.txt > working on that could be interesting. >
Just to go a bit in a different direction than what Armin already wrote: Yes, we would be very interested in having somebody work on our GCs. They currently work, but they are not very advanced in many respects. So if somebody is interested in having a go at them, that would probably be quite useful for PyPy. I can't really say how interesting it would be research-wise, though. Cheers, Carl Friedrich _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
