Re: How is Unladen Swallow coming along?

2010-07-13 Thread Dan Stromberg
2010/7/8 Luis M. González luis...@gmail.com

 On Jul 8, 1:42 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
  How is Unladen Swallow coming along?  Looking at the site, code is
  being checked in and issues are being reported, but the last quarterly
  release was 2009 Q3.  They missed their January 2010 release date
  for 2009 Q4, so they're now about 6 months behind their project
  plan.
 
  (http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan;)
 
  John Nagle

 Don't be shy.
 Ask this question in Unladen Swallow's google group. They don't bite!


I'm not the O.P., but I was curious too, so I asked on an Unladen Swallow
mailing list.  The response was that progress on Unladen Swallow is still
occurring, and is focused on merging things into the py3k-jit branch of the
official python repo.
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How is Unladen Swallow coming along?

2010-07-08 Thread John Nagle

   How is Unladen Swallow coming along?  Looking at the site, code is
being checked in and issues are being reported, but the last quarterly
release was 2009 Q3.  They missed their January 2010 release date
for 2009 Q4, so they're now about 6 months behind their project
plan.

(http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan;)

John Nagle
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Re: How is Unladen Swallow coming along?

2010-07-08 Thread Luis M . González
On Jul 8, 1:42 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
     How is Unladen Swallow coming along?  Looking at the site, code is
 being checked in and issues are being reported, but the last quarterly
 release was 2009 Q3.  They missed their January 2010 release date
 for 2009 Q4, so they're now about 6 months behind their project
 plan.

 (http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan;)

                                         John Nagle

Don't be shy.
Ask this question in Unladen Swallow's google group. They don't bite!

Luis
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Re: How is Unladen Swallow coming along?

2010-07-08 Thread John Nagle

On 7/8/2010 12:19 PM, Luis M. González wrote:

On Jul 8, 1:42 pm, John Naglena...@animats.com  wrote:

 How is Unladen Swallow coming along?  Looking at the site, code is
being checked in and issues are being reported, but the last quarterly
release was 2009 Q3.  They missed their January 2010 release date
for 2009 Q4, so they're now about 6 months behind their project
plan.

(http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan;)

 John Nagle


Don't be shy.
Ask this question in Unladen Swallow's google group. They don't bite!


   Found this:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#performance-retrospective;

   It's starting to work, but the performance improvement is tiny,
well under 2x faster than CPython.  Only 1.08x on html5lib.
That's far less than they expected.  They were going for 5x,
which is far less than Shed Skin (which restricts Python)
already achieves.

John Nagle
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Re: How is Unladen Swallow coming along?

2010-07-08 Thread Luis M . González
On Jul 8, 5:44 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
 On 7/8/2010 12:19 PM, Luis M. González wrote:

  On Jul 8, 1:42 pm, John Naglena...@animats.com  wrote:
       How is Unladen Swallow coming along?  Looking at the site, code is
  being checked in and issues are being reported, but the last quarterly
  release was 2009 Q3.  They missed their January 2010 release date
  for 2009 Q4, so they're now about 6 months behind their project
  plan.

  (http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan;)

                                           John Nagle

  Don't be shy.
  Ask this question in Unladen Swallow's google group. They don't bite!

     Found this:

 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#performance-retrospective;

     It's starting to work, but the performance improvement is tiny,
 well under 2x faster than CPython.  Only 1.08x on html5lib.
 That's far less than they expected.  They were going for 5x,
 which is far less than Shed Skin (which restricts Python)
 already achieves.

                                 John Nagle


Shedskin is an heroic effort by Mark Dufour, but comparing it to
Cpython is like comparing oranges to apples.
Shedskin is not an interpreter, it's just a way to compile implicitly
statically typed python code to c++.
So the project is more along the lines of Pyrex/Cython in its goals.
I believe it's a great way to compile extension modules written in
restricted python, although it could compile entire programs provided
they don't rely on non supported libraries or modules. Only a few are
supported to different degrees of completeness.

At this moment, it seems that Pypy is the project holding more
promises.
Although I guess Guido has strong reasons to support Unladen Swallow.
Lets see what happens...

Luis
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