Hi Armin, Hi Maciej, first of all, thanks for your feedback and sorry for the late reply.
On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > Hello. > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Armin Rigo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Kai, >> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:36AM +0100, kai.aras wrote: >>> I know that targeting Embedded Platforms was an Issue in the >>> original >>> EU-Project and there was that Maemo thing last year, so I'm guessing >>> this could be a general topic for a GSoC Project as well as a >>> Bachelor's Thesis, what do you guys think ? Is this something you >>> would like to see as well ? >> >> I am afraid there is a gap (larger than ever) between the small >> amount >> of "core people" and the large amount of directions we could explore. >> Thank you for your interest; by no mean I intend to disappoint you, >> but >> there is just no-one working on the general topic of embedding PyPy >> any >> longer. So it is very unlikely that you can get a SoC project on it. I totally get that, no problem. It looks like I wont be able to make it in time for a SoC anyway. However, if you don't think this is a complete dead-end, I'd still like to experiment with that for my Bachelor's Thesis, otherwise please let me know. > I think I would like to expand on that. In the past we had a bit of > problems with people doing work for SoC and then abandoning a working > prototype. Since it was out of interest of a core group, we just > killed the code or moved it to some obscure place at some later point. > In a way, we would like to encourage people to do some work which is > more of a core interest (at least for SoC) and if in doubt, we would > choose such people. > > That said, personally I would encourage you to investigate this > direction for your bachelor if you feel like it. For example the idea > of having a JIT on embedded devices is for example a very researchy > area, since you need memory for the JIT (which is not free on embedded > devices). > > Cheers, > fijal Looking into the JIT sounds quite interesting to me too, thanks for bringing that up. I don't have a huge background in this field, so I wouldn't really know how to get started on this, maybe you could point me in the right direction here, any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kai _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
