On Friday, April 11, 2014 9:18:30 PM UTC+2, Joe Barnhart wrote: > > It's Pyston! Guido works at Dropbox, so any new revolutionary Python > system from there is likely to carry his stamp on it. He has seemed > impressed by PyPy in the past, but always a little distant. I think this > is what he wants for the future of Python. Not an all-encompassing "python > written in python" but a straightforward JIT to bring it up to at least JVM > speed, and maybe better. >
Why do you consider this as Guido's direct answer to PyPy..? I really think that would be reading into it a bit too much... I simply see Pyston as a research project at this time. If all parts fall together nicely, it might bring important changes to Python, if not, it will most likely get abandoned. Remember the Unladen Swallow? It was started by three core CPython developers, who were all working at Google at the time, same as Guido was. And we all know it's ultimate fate... So, there are similarities here. The goal is JIT on top of LLVM, Pyston is started by engineers at Dropbox, while Guido is also currently working at Dropbox. And, similarly, the project's success (or impending doom) lies in the approach taken to achieve JIT. How ever this turns, it's a good thing. Google funded full time (not Guido's, mind you) development of Unladen Swallow for a while, the project produced some code that was merged upstream (for example, cPickle) and, most importantly, researched an approach to JIT, which is knowledge now available to the community. Hopefully, Pyston is well aware of it. If Pyston achieves at least that much with the help of funding from Dropbox (again, Guido isn't working on this, AFAIK), I wouldn't complain. If it reaches the ultimate goal or at least brings significant improvements, well.. that would be great..! -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
