Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Alexandre Vassalotti > wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, wrote: >>> Of course, this being free software, anybody can spend time on whatever >>> they >>> please, and this should not make anybody feel

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, wrote: >> Of course, this being free software, anybody can spend time on whatever >> they >> please, and this should not make anybody feel sad. You just don't get >> merits >> if you work on stuff that

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, wrote: > So I disagree that we could easily reach the point where it's "close to >> the >> speed of what we have." And if we were to attempt this, it would be a >> multiple months undertaking. I would rather see that time spent on >> improving pickle than on yet

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread Greg Ewing
Alexandre Vassalotti wrote: We have custom stack and dictionary implementations just for the sake of speed. We also have fast paths for I/O operations and function calls. All of that could very likely be carried over almost unchanged into a Cython version. I don't see why it should take mult

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread martin
So I disagree that we could easily reach the point where it's "close to the speed of what we have." And if we were to attempt this, it would be a multiple months undertaking. I would rather see that time spent on improving pickle than on yet another reimplementation. Of course, this being free s

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X buildbots missing

2012-04-22 Thread David Bolen
Antoine Pitrou writes: > Well, the reason it can't qualify for the stable list right now is that > there's a recurrent test_logging failure on it: > http://bugs.python.org/issue14644 Yeah, I don't know that I'm necessarily suggesting it be in the stable set as just mentioning that there is at le

Re: [Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

2012-04-22 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > That sounds like less than two weeks of work, maybe even if we add the > marshal module to it. > In less than a month of GSoC time, this could easily reach a point where > it's "close to the speed of what we have" and "fast enough", but a l

Re: [Python-Dev] OS X buildbots missing

2012-04-22 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:50:03 -0400 David Bolen wrote: > Antoine Pitrou writes: > > > For the record, we don't have any stable OS X buildbots anymore. > > If you want to contribute a build slave (I hear we may have Apple > > employees reading this list), please take a look at > > http://wiki.pyth

Re: [Python-Dev] path joining on Windows and imp.cache_from_source()

2012-04-22 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:45:27 +0200 "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > This goes back to > > http://codereview.appspot.com/842043/diff/1/3#newcode787 > > where Antoine points out that the code needs to look for altsep. > > He then suggests "keep the right-most of both". I don't think he > literally m

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: issue2193 - Update docs about the legal characters allowed in Cookie name

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:32 PM, senthil.kumaran wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8cae3ee7f691 > changeset:   76465:8cae3ee7f691 > parent:      76462:0a63868c5e95 > user:        Senthil Kumaran > date:        Sun Apr 22 10:31:52 2012 +0800 > summary: >  issue2193 - Update docs about the