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Hi Damien I applaud your efforts. One thing to note thought is that the market-share of Python 2.x is a lot larger than Python 3.1 - - and I think this will be

by amix 17y ago

Hi Damien I applaud your efforts. One thing to note thought is that the market-share of Python 2.x is a lot larger than Python 3.1 - - and I think this will be the case for some time, as Python 3.x requires lots of porting. It would be great if you could optimize an interpreter for web-applications - where Python is used a lot. I would be very interested in paying for an web-application optimized interpreter - - and you could probably do this optimization more generally?

ztzg 17y ago
Thanks! You're not the only one to mention Python 2.x, and we've learned quite a few things about the language since we started this effort. :) I have updated the web page to mention that we now have fully-functional xtpython2.6 in the lab! It will ship with the alpha 2 release, which is due around mid-may. Even I was surprised that coming up with this was only a couple of days of work, because the two versions of the interpreter are very similar in structure, so most adapters could be reused as-is (Ruby 1.9 → 1.8 was more… challenging, to say the least). I only started looking into web applications, and what can be done about them. It is a more delicate target than e.g. scientific computing, because many pieces (a lot of which are written in C) are involved at each request. Interestingly, while Django is currently seeing very modest speedups (4%) on the unladen-swallow benchmarks, Spitfire is up by 70%. Oh well, this wouldn't be as fun if my TODO list were too short, would it?