Blog <blogtes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you not heard about the "Unladen Swallow" project from google? > There's a new PEP coming up which will propose google's codebase to be > merged with Py3k, resulting in superior performance.
This kind of worries me for a number of reasons: * unladen is _way_ too immature and unproven a project to replace the current implementation, * Google themselves have stressed they're only concerned with improvements that benefit their use cases, such that * other benchmarks appear to perform _worse_ under unladen, and * has the project even posted substantive enough gains to warrant this change? that didn't seem to be the situation when I last checked * so far, the speed improvements have come at a cost of significantly higher memory use (i believe it was ~10 times that of CPython at one point) I dunno, I kinda feel about Unladen Swallow the exact same way I do about Go: if it wasn't a Google project, I really doubt it would be getting the attention it is (over the other performance enhancement projects: cython, psyco2, pypi et al) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
