As usual with such products, we don't know if they implemented 100% python or 99%. Can they run existing apps?
Basically, the whitepaper as it is, is not a scientific experiment because one is unable to reproduce results. I would simply ignore it until someone has something to show. Cheers, fijal On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Antonio Cuni <[email protected]> wrote: > Laura Creighton wrote: >> Anybody heard of this? >> http://crosstwine.com/linker/index.html >> >> Damien Diederen is giving a talk about speeding up python at EuroSciPy, >> and since this is his company, it should be about this. > > I skimmed over the website and read the whitepaper few weeks ago. Honestly, I > don't understand if and how they manage to speedup python. In fact, they show > results for only 4 benchmarks: one is a version of bpnn (which we also have, > somewhere) modified to be "static enough" to be compiled by shedskin; the > other three are really microbenchmarks. > > Since he doesn't show any other benchmark, I wonder if his product gives any > speedup at all on real programs. > > > In other words: I think we should also point out the few benchmarks where pypy > is already faster and start making money on it :-) > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
