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If "business needs" was a real consideration, they'd just contribute to PyPy instead of writing a new implementation. They have yet to present strong case for
by eiopa 11y ago
If "business needs" was a real consideration, they'd just contribute to PyPy instead of writing a new implementation.
They have yet to present strong case for this project.
- rudi-c 11y agoCould you explain why you think contributing to PyPy would better achieve the goal of replacing the Python implementation in Dropbox's codebase?
- eiopa 11y agoBecause it's mature, fast and proven and has good comparability (Achilles hill: C extension support + numpy) , and it would benefit a lot from a high-profile contributor. I suspect that Dropbox has a bunch of custom C extension code (Pyston puts C extension support as a high priority), which may have been a contributing factor here.