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Hi to be clear, this is project undetaken by me (Alex) independently, it wasn't funded out of the PyPy funds or anything like that. There were 3 primary motivat

• lloeki 14y ago
  Hey Alex, let me tell you I completely understand points a) b) c) and more. It seems we started our competing Ruby on PyPy implementations at about the same time [0]! My goal was to build a robust and documented Ruby parser, and hope PyPy make it magically fast. To that end I embedded PLY and modified it to not require kwargs. Then a thunder of work fell from the skies, and I was just recently unearthing PyPy 1.9 to put the thing back on track. Congratulations for the release :-) [0]: $ ls -l playground/pypy total 29160 drwxr-xr-x 12 lloeki staff 408 18 Feb 2011 ply-3.4 drwxr-xr-x 15 lloeki staff 510 3 Apr 2012 pyby drwxr-xr-x 23 lloeki staff 782 27 Mar 2012 pypy-pypy-2346207d9946 drwxr-xr-x 18 lloeki staff 612 27 Mar 2012 pypy-tutorial -rw-r--r-- 1 lloeki staff 14927806 27 Mar 2012 release-1.8.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 10 lloeki staff 340 3 Apr 2012 unholy
  • lloeki 14y ago
    Holy snakes[0]. It seems you pursued the exact same approach[1] as me :-) [0]: https://github.com/topazproject/topaz/blob/master/topaz/lexer.py#L6 https://github.com/topazproject/topaz/blob/master/topaz/lexe... [1]: https://github.com/alex/rply https://github.com/alex/rply