Collin Winter wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
An ars technica articla just linked to in a python-list post
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars
calls the following project "Google launched"
http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
(Though the project page does not really claim that.)
Hi, I'm the tech lead for Unladen Swallow. Jeffrey Yasskin and Thomas
Wouters are also working on this project.
Unladen Swallow is Google-sponsored, but not Google-owned. This is an
open-source branch that we're working on, focused on performance, and
we want to move all of our work upstream as quickly as possible. In
fact, right now I'm adding a last few tests before putting our cPickle
patches up on the tracker for further review.
Thank you for the answers and comments.
Pickle speedups will be welcomed by many. It comes up on python-list
from time to time.
I am sure some people here might find this interesting.
I'd love to have a faster CPython, but this note:
"Will probably kill Python Windows support (for now)."
would kill merger back into mainline (for now) without one opposing being
'conservative'.
To clarify, when I wrote 'conservative', I wasn't being disparaging. A
Sorry I was mislead. Perhaps you might want to rewrite to sound more
like what you have written here -- something like "There is a risk we
will be unable to justify the more radical changes that we propose."
resistance to change can certainly be a good thing, and something that
I think is very healthy in these situations. We certainly have to
prove ourselves, especially given some of the fairly radical things
we're thinking of [1]. We believe we can justify these changes, but I
*do* want to be forced to justify them publicly; I don't think
python-dev would be doing its job if some of these things were merely
accepted without discussion.
[snip]
Terry
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