Hi,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org wrote:
What's the PyPy position on bytecode hacking? Good, bad, evil, don't mind
either way?
(...)
Secondly, it's useless for speed when you have a JIT.
Indeed, although it is not 100% true, because we also have an
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
2011/9/23 Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info:
Hi guys,
Over on the python-ideas mailing list, there is a long thread about the
default argument hack in functions, used for micro-optimizations,
early-binding, and monkey-patching. Various alternatives are being argued
2011/9/23 Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info:
So the question is: would it be a burden for PyPy to make any guarantees
about the stability of bytecode?
I would say not without great benefit. If you're doing something that
requires changing bytecode, the obvious answer is to add some syntax
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org wrote:
2011/9/23 Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info:
So the question is: would it be a burden for PyPy to make any guarantees
about the stability of bytecode?
I would say not without great benefit. If you're doing
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote:
So the question is: would it be a burden for PyPy to make any guarantees
about the stability of bytecode?
The answer is: Feel free to do anything or nothing with CPython's
bytecode. As Fijal says it has little to
Hi Zariko,
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Zariko Taba zariko.t...@gmail.com wrote:
I hit an assert in pypy/annotation/annrpython.py in addpendingblock line 231
: assert annmodel.unionof(s_oldarg, s_newarg) == s_oldarg
This is an assert that we keep hitting from time to time. Your
I'm interested in volunteering my time to mentor a small group of senior
Computer Science students at Oregon State University on a project relevant
to the Python community. PyPy definitely qualifies, and I'm looking for
project ideas.
The project would be for their senior capstone class. Groups
