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by fijal 13y ago
It's maybe worth pointing out that this is the first release that has a full ARM JIT support.
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by fijal 13y ago
I would like to second that with a simple fact that people who are good with monetizing and people who are good with science are often (but not always) a distinct set of people.
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by fijal 13y ago
Did you ever try finding funding for an ambitious project? Companies generally laugh at you, unless you can achieve something within 3 months (which is a typical time scale) or already work there and do other jobs. Speaking from experience
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by fijal 13y ago
They were optimistic at the beginning too (even with C extensions). How would it fill your usecase in a way that pypy does not?
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by fijal 13y ago
The title is very misleading - it should be called "How fast can we make CPython", because it talks about compatibility with PyObject* and stuff. While I would argue that we can't make interpreted Python particularly fast, th
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by fijal 13y ago
We have this optimization in PyPy (so yes, Python can do it). There is even a paper [0]. LuaJIT is a great source of inspiration but Python is just a huge language, which makes it much harder. http://www.maths.lth.se/matemat
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by fijal 13y ago
I think you underestimate the complexity of Python language. Note that PyPy is not the only project that did that - remember psyco? There are reasons why after 3 years Armin said "I give up, let's do PyPy". It's not the
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by fijal 13y ago
"There are probably around 100 people in the entire country that shouldn't fly" <- this is the problem if there are people who are guilty of something, they should be prosecuted and jailed. There are procedures for that. T
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by fijal 13y ago
"First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. Then they came fo
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by fijal 13y ago
I would not mind more docs on "how to write plugins" ;-)
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by fijal 13y ago
GIL removal is easy. The hard part is that locking all the structures in order to avoid interpreter crashes (which are not acceptable in a language like python) is hard. It's not impossible though, jython did that. CPython additionally has
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by fijal 13y ago
Benchmarks: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PyPy_benchmarks.... Note that the benchmarks are preliminary as in there is both a lot of improvement possibility and we're not 100% sure if those are reasonable numbers. Also, the
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by fijal 13y ago
Er. This proof is seriously flawed, starting with "what is Perl"? How do we define a language that's not parseable? Does it only mean that you can't know what the program will do until you run it? That's true for Ruby, Python, pretty much e
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by fijal 13y ago
This is the first time I see someone using Fahrenheit degrees outside of 0-150 range. Do Americans usually use F for stuff like material limits etc?
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by fijal 13y ago
There is a huge difference between "good" (and climbing around Chattanooga is certainly good) and "the best in the world".
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by fijal 13y ago
* variable and function names are all lowercase, with no underscores. That sounds odd
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by fijal 13y ago
Top three (er more) reasons: * Weather - it's ok to good all year round with the season (may-september) being always exceptional. You can climb as much as you want * Rocklands + Cape Town has the best rock I've seen and I've been to tons of
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by fijal 13y ago
I like how "in The World" means "in the United States of America, in my opinion". As a rock climber, I can point out few problems: - weather, Tennesse weather is not really that good compared to places like Boulder or California - deep sout
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by fijal 13y ago
So, whether or not a piracy is a crime really does depend on both mindset and jurisdiction. US is one of the few places where you can make rules however you like and people will obey it, however little sense it makes. The laws in africa for
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by fijal 13y ago
There is a major difference. The Ukrainian government does not do anything about the piracy. In theory it might be because gov is in piracy's pocket, but most likely they just don't care. It requires inaction from them, which is usually not
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by fijal 13y ago
Cython isn't able to compile all Python. It definitely can compile a large subset of Python, but certainly not all of it. I don't actually know how fast the compiled Cython is - in my (very limited) experience, if you don't provide types, i
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by fijal 13y ago
Less often because CPython characteristics are well known and there is no baseline to compare to.
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by fijal 13y ago
And you did put at least the same amount of effort as to write this comment to report the bug to pypy devs and/or library devs right?
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by fijal 13y ago
Python is a vast language. It's very hard to know upfront what sort of patterns people use - if you don't talk to us, don't post stuff on the bug tracker, don't do anything - it's your own fault. PyPy is known to speed up real world code to
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by fijal 13y ago
do you really think it'll ever be able to compile arbitrary Python and make it fast most of the time? Cython never got there and numba is having a vastly different purpose.
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by fijal 13y ago
It's funny how the exact same news on the pypy blog did not make it to the front page. Anyway, here you go for a full announcement including benchmarks: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/05/pypy-20-alpha-for-arm.h...
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by fijal 13y ago
This is exactly one of the things where the cultural divide is just too far for me to understand. Do people really plan meals like this in america?
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by fijal 13y ago
I suggest readin "5 years of bad ideas" by Armin Ronacher - https://ep2013.europython.eu/conference/talks/5-years-of-bad... (video and slides on the page). It summarizes 5 years of similar hacks.
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by fijal 13y ago
It's a gamble along the lines of "I bet I can invest money better than the bank". Often turns out the bank can invest money better. I wonder who convinced them to invest, er, gamble.
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by fijal 14y ago
The problem with memory usage is lack of benchmarks. For most of the benchmarks that are on the page it'll be only the interpreter size. We're working on a solution (and on memory usage) though.

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