Re: [pypy-dev] mix-and-match approach to implementation decisions

2015-02-15 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:58 PM, William ML Leslie wrote: > On 14 February 2015 at 19:48, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> >> Reading http://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ to see if I can >> understand the text without a formal CS education. What does >> "mix-and-match approach to implementation d

Re: [pypy-dev] mix-and-match approach to implementation decisions

2015-02-14 Thread William ML Leslie
​I guess it's reasonable to ask how true this is of rpython. What options are there, and how do they exclude / depend on one another? In the l*o*p problem, it now ignores all p but one, and rpython doesn't concern itself with l.​ Maybe it's the gc * o problem now? -- William Leslie Notice: Li

Re: [pypy-dev] mix-and-match approach to implementation decisions

2015-02-14 Thread William ML Leslie
On 14 February 2015 at 19:48, anatoly techtonik wrote: > Hi, > > Reading http://rpython.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ to see if I can > understand the text without a formal CS education. What does > "mix-and-match approach to implementation decisions" mean? > It means that making one decision - lik