On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:10:27 +0100 Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > Hi Antoine, > > On 20/10/2020 2:32 pm, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:53:34 +0100 > > Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> CPython is slow. We all know that, yet little is done to fix it. > >> > >> I'd like to change that. > >> I have a plan to speed up CPython by a factor of five over the next few > >> years. But it needs funding. > >> > >> I am aware that there have been several promised speed ups in the past > >> that have failed. You might wonder why this is different. > >> > >> Here are three reasons: > >> 1. I already have working code for the first stage. > >> 2. I'm not promising a silver bullet. I recognize that this is a > >> substantial amount of work and needs funding. > >> 3. I have extensive experience in VM implementation, not to mention a > >> PhD in the subject. > >> > >> My ideas for possible funding, as well as the actual plan of > >> development, can be found here: > >> > >> https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython > > > > Do you plan to do all this in C, or would you switch to C++ (or > > something else)? > > All C, no C++. I promise :)
Interesting, I was mostly expecting/suggesting the opposite. Once you pass a certain level of complexity, C is really a burden. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/H7665MH2KQ7W5NEZW2BMS3AD4EP2NFGK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
