Hello, Due to the enormous time demands on my PhD, I've been out of touch lately! I follow from the blog though :) and it seems like you guys have been doing great work.
I am hoping to attend the sprint in Leysin. I would be able to come from the 14th until the 19th (I have to be back on the 20th, so I figure I'd leave 19th in the afternoon/evening). I'd have no problem sharing a room, though I'm not sure if the fact that I can't stay for the full sprint would be an issue. As for something to work on: besides hacking on whatever you guys think is important, I was considering porting one of my thesis ideas to Python. It has to do with an alternate means of specifying parallel programs (sort of a mix between threads and futures). Right now it exists in slightly different forms as both a Java and Python library (sorry, no web page), but I thought that by integrating it into the interpreter I might be able to do more, such as dynamic race detection. My concern is that because this is an experimental research topic, it doesn't really help with the goal of preparing the interpreter for general use. If it's not an appropriate topic for the sprint, then a compromise might be any tasks that would help me to learn about the interpreter so I can see better how to add my changes. Not sure if this mail ought to go to pypy-dev or pypy-sprint, so sorry if I chose the wrong one! regards, Niko _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
