Hi, pretty much a year ago I wrote about the optimizations I did for my PhD thesis that target the Python 3 series interpreters. While I got some replies, the discussion never really picked up and no final explicit conclusion was reached. AFAICT, because of the following two factors, my optimizations were not that interesting for inclusion with the distribution at that time: a) Unladden Swallow was targeting Python 3, too. b) My prototype did not pass the regression tests.
As of November 2010 (IIRC), Google is not supporting work on US anymore, and the project is stalled. (If I am wrong and there is still activity and any plans with the corresponding PEP, please let me know.) Which is why I recently spent some time fixing issues so that I can run the regression tests. There is still some work to be done, but by and large it should be possible to complete all regression tests in reasonable time (with the actual infrastructure in place, enabling optimizations later on is not a problem at all, too.) So, the two big issues aside, is there any interest in incorporating these optimizations in Python 3? Have a nice day, --stefan PS: It probably is unusual, but in a part of my home page I have created a link to indicate interest (makes both counting and voting easier, http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sbruntha/) There were also links indicating interest in funding the work; I have disabled these, so as not to upset anybody or make the impression of begging for money... _______________________________________________ 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
