Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.06.2015 21:07, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hi There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the https://bitbucket.org/pypy/codespeed2/src being written (thank you PSF). It's not better enough than codespeed that I would like, but gives some opportunities. That said,

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-03 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 02.06.2015 21:07, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hi There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the https://bitbucket.org/pypy/codespeed2/src being written (thank you PSF). It's not better enough than

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-03 Thread R. David Murray
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:04:10 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 02.06.2015 21:07, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hi There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-03 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:49 PM, R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:04:10 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 02.06.2015 21:07, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: Hi There was

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-03 Thread Tetsuya Morimoto
If someone were to volunteer to set up and run speed.python.org, I think we could add some additional focus on performance regressions. Right now, we don't have any way of reliably and reproducibly testing Python performance. I'm very interested in speed.python.org and feel regret that the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-02 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
Hi There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the https://bitbucket.org/pypy/codespeed2/src being written (thank you PSF). It's not better enough than codespeed that I would like, but gives some opportunities. That said, we have a benchmark machine for benchmarking cpython

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:08 PM Maciej Fijalkowski fij...@gmail.com wrote: Hi There was a PSF-sponsored effort to improve the situation with the https://bitbucket.org/pypy/codespeed2/src being written (thank you PSF). It's not better enough than codespeed that I would like, but gives some

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 01.06.2015 12:44, Armin Rigo wrote: Hi Larry, On 31 May 2015 at 01:20, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: p.s. Supporting this patch also helps cut into PyPy's reported performance lead--that is, if they ever upgrade speed.pypy.org from comparing against Python *2.7.2*. Right,

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-01 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:14:27 +0200 M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: [] The 7.0x faster number on speed.pypy.org would be significantly *higher* if we upgraded the baseline to 2.7.10 now. If someone were to volunteer to set up and run speed.python.org, I think we could add

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-06-01 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Larry, On 31 May 2015 at 01:20, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: p.s. Supporting this patch also helps cut into PyPy's reported performance lead--that is, if they ever upgrade speed.pypy.org from comparing against Python *2.7.2*. Right, we should do this upgrade when 2.7.11 is out.

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-31 Thread Ludovic Gasc
2015-05-31 0:26 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com: On 31 May 2015 04:20, Ludovic Gasc gml...@gmail.com wrote: For now, I'm following the mailing-lists from a spy-glass: I don't read most of the e-mails. However, this thread seems to be infected: I can smell from here your

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Ludovic Gasc
For now, I'm following the mailing-lists from a spy-glass: I don't read most of the e-mails. However, this thread seems to be infected: I can smell from here your emotions behind your words. Why to push a lot of emotions inside a technical discussion ? What's the nerves have been hit with this

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Larry Hastings
On 05/30/2015 07:26 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Porting performance features from python 3 to python 2 has the disadvantage of cutting into a compelling business case for users to move forward to python 3.[1] so doing this has a cost to python 3 adoption. But, the question is whether there

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 May 2015 04:20, Ludovic Gasc gml...@gmail.com wrote: For now, I'm following the mailing-lists from a spy-glass: I don't read most of the e-mails. However, this thread seems to be infected: I can smell from here your emotions behind your words. Why to push a lot of emotions inside a

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Greg Ewing
Nick Coghlan wrote: We've long had a requirement that certain kinds of proposal come with at least nominal support commitments from the folks proposing them (e.g. adding modules to the standard library, supporting new platforms). Institutions with a clear financial interest in a particular

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 May 2015 at 09:20, Larry Hastings la...@hastings.org wrote: On 05/30/2015 07:26 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: Porting performance features from python 3 to python 2 has the disadvantage of cutting into a compelling business case for users to move forward to python 3.[1] so doing this has

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 31 May 2015 at 08:37, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Nick Coghlan wrote: We've long had a requirement that certain kinds of proposal come with at least nominal support commitments from the folks proposing them (e.g. adding modules to the standard library, supporting new

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 10:46, Alexander Walters tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: Python is a giant cache-miss generator. A little performance boost on the opt-code dispatch isn't going to change that much. If we really do care about improving python to do less environmental damage, then that is a

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 30 May 2015 18:55:20 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2015 10:46, Alexander Walters tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: Python is a giant cache-miss generator. A little performance boost on the opt-code dispatch isn't going to change that much. If we really do

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 30 May 2015 20:52:21 +1000 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose someone came up with a magic patch that makes the CPython core run 25% faster. No downsides, just 25% faster across the board. I wouldn't pay money for it on the sole basis of expecting to make that back in

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 at 20:58, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 18:55:20 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2015 10:46, Alexander Walters tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: Python is a giant cache-miss generator. A little performance boost on the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote: For performance patches we have to consider our responsibility for the environment. Every improvement means more speed and less power consumption. Python runs of hundreds of

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Christian Heimes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-05-30 14:03, Antoine Pitrou wrote: No, it's up to the proponent to prove that the effect exists, with a magnitude large enough to make any interesting difference. That's part of the process when suggesting a change. If it doesn't, or

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:34:15 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2015 09:57, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote: For performance patches we have to consider our responsibility for the

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 at 20:35, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:34:15 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2015 09:57, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote:

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 20:52:21 +1000 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Suppose someone came up with a magic patch that makes the CPython core run 25% faster. No downsides, just 25% faster across the board. I

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:34:15 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2015 09:57, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 30 May 2015 21:20:56 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Given the extensive complaints about the lack of corporate contribution to upstream CPython maintenance, the hostile reaction to a concrete proposal for such ongoing contributions has been both incredibly surprising

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 30/05/2015 13:51, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : Antoine Pitrou writes: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote: For performance patches we have to consider our responsibility for the environment. Every improvement means more speed and less

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 at 21:37, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 21:20:56 +1000 Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Given the extensive complaints about the lack of corporate contribution to upstream CPython maintenance, the hostile reaction to a concrete proposal for

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hi Christian, Antoine, now your are putting it over the top. You make it sound like I'm some crazy environmentalist or eco-warrior. Well, I'm not. I apologize for misrepresenting your position. I still don't think discussing environmental matters is really productive here, though :-)

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Alexander Walters
Who said anything about funding? this is a thread about the patch Intel offered (and had committed). And that's the point. This is the thread about THAT patch. Why are we hijacking this topic for an environmental debate? If it is a legitimate topic (which it might be), discuss it in its

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: In a community of volunteers, ideology is typically a great motivator. If and only everyone agrees on it. That, my friend, is *your* ideology speaking. Some people work on open source to scratch technical itches -- the program doesn't do what they want, they're

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On May 30, 2015 1:56 AM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: Being ready, willing and able to handle the kind of situation created by the Python 2-3 community transition is a large part of what it means to offer commercial support for community driven open source projects, as it buys

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 30, 2015, at 06:55 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: Intel are looking to get involved in CPython core development *specifically* to work on performance improvements, so it's important to offer folks in the community good reasons for why we're OK with seeing at least some of that work applied to

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Christian Heimes
On 2015-05-29 23:14, Gregory P. Smith wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 11:01 am, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.com mailto:victor.stin...@gmail.com wrote: Why not continue to

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 09:57, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote: For performance patches we have to consider our responsibility for the environment. Every improvement means more speed and less power

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Ian Cordasco
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 11:01 am, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.com wrote: Why not continue to enhance Python 3 instead of wasting our time with

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 07:14, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 11:01 am, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.com wrote: Why not continue to enhance Python 3 instead of wasting our time with Python 2?

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Alexander Walters
Python is a giant cache-miss generator. A little performance boost on the opt-code dispatch isn't going to change that much. If we really do care about improving python to do less environmental damage, then that is a discussion we should be having on it's own merits. It was really out of

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Ian Cordasco graffatcolmin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 11:01 am, Victor Stinner

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 29, 2015, at 04:04 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: There are a fair number of people on this thread whose employer pays them to work on Python. My guess is that as Python 2.7 gets longer in the tooth, and it becomes harder to motivate volunteers to shepherd contributed patches into Python 2,

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Ian Cordasco
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Ian Cordasco graffatcolmin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Gregory P. Smith g...@krypto.org wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 30 May 2015 09:21, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On May 29, 2015, at 04:04 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: There are a fair number of people on this thread whose employer pays them to work on Python. My guess is that as Python 2.7 gets longer in the tooth, and it becomes harder to

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sat, 30 May 2015 01:49:10 +0200 Christian Heimes christ...@python.org wrote: For performance patches we have to consider our responsibility for the environment. Every improvement means more speed and less power consumption. Python runs of hundreds of thousands of machines in the cloud.

Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.

2015-05-29 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2015 11:01 am, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@gmail.com wrote: Why not continue to enhance Python 3 instead of wasting our time with Python 2? We have limited resources in term of developers to maintain