Neal Norwitz wrote: > First off, good work to everyone involved. You did a tremendous job. > I just hope to hell you're done, because I can't keep up! :-) > Not quite done yet, but I will be encouraging the team to start wrapping up in time to draw a line under everything that *isn't* going to continue by 17:00 GMT today, when we all turn into pumpkins.
> It would help me enormously if someone could summarize the status and > everything that went on. These are the things that would help me the > most. > > * What are the speed diffs before/after the sprint > * What was modified (summary) > * What is left to do > - doc > - tests > - code > * Which branches are still planning to remain active > * Lessons learned, how we can improve for the next time > * Suggestions for further areas to look into improving > One of today's most important missions for me is to make sure that the results of the sprint are adequately documented, including pointers to further work that might yield speedups. > It looks like there were a lot of additions to the string test suite, > that's great. I'm not sure if the other areas touched got similar > boosts to their tests. It would be good to upgrade all tests to > verify corner cases of the implementation. These tests should also be > documented that they are to test the implementation rather than the > language spec. We don't want to write obscure tests that can't pass > in other impls like Jython, IronPython, or PyPy. > Yes, we could really do with implementation-specific tests for this stuff. > I will turn my amd64 box back on tomorrow and will also run Python > through valgrind and pychecker when I get a chance. There are a > couple of new Coverity complaints that need to be addressed. > That'll be great. Again, let me say we've had terrific support from many other developers. I hope the whole community benefits from this sprint. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
