On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:37 AM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 08:14, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> > wrote: > > > > On 21/10/2020 00.14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > > > > > >> What I don't see is where the money's coming from. It's fine to ask, > > >> but will anyone come up with that sort of funding? > > > > > > I don't think Mark is asking for you or I to fund the exercise. He's > > > asking for the PSF to fund it. > > > > No, he is not. Mark is asking the PSF to organize a fund raiser and keep > > half the money. > > Right. I'd misinterpreted the fact that the PSF was to get half the > money as meaning they weren't doing the fundraising. My > misunderstanding, thanks for the clarification. > > Paul > In 2004 a single company paid me to organise the "Need for Speed" sprint, held in Iceland. A lot was achieved, particularly in string searching and the re module, though I can't honestly say how much impact it had on "overall performance". The work we did with pybench that week definitely moved Python benchmarking along some. Sixteen years later, the PSF's income may be down due to external factors, but its connectivity at a high level with Python users has improved immeasurably. Need for Speed cost ~$300,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars. If one relatively small trading house could fund at that level it seems likely the PSF could fund this suggested a project quite separately from its existing revenues as long as the development community was behind it and prepared to help with materials for the "sell."
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