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541.
by fijal 15y ago
That has two sources - one is the complexity of the python interpreter the other is the complexity of the toolchain itself. Compiling converge takes ~5 minutes, while compiling python interpreter about 30minutes. There is definitely an ongo
542.
by fijal 15y ago
It does not for a very trivial reason - we lack benchmarks that have some reasonable memory impact. Right now most benchmarks would measure interpreter size, which is slightly boring
543.
Polish parliment members wearing Guy Fawkes masks in parliment to protest ACTA(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by fijal 15y ago|0 comments
544.
by fijal 15y ago
why the people wrapping stuff in strings have to understand the limitations of RPython? It's "wrap expression in strings" vs "do nothing".
545.
by fijal 15y ago
Note: this reply is on the wrong level, I cannot reply correctly. I don't think I'm highly dismissive about numpy/scipy/cython community. I wouldn't be implementing all this stuff if I didn't think those APIs are good and they're the future
546.
by fijal 15y ago
Well. Fast Python loops in CPython has been tried before and failed. I seriously don't see a way of getting a working JIT that really optimizes a lot of code out there and native support for CPython extensions. There will be some side tha
547.
by fijal 15y ago
I think I disagree pretty much about every single point you make. First for something as simple as laplace equation solver numpy vectorized loop is 35ms per loop vs 6.3ms for C. As your list of operations increase, your need of intermediate
548.
by fijal 15y ago
It's discussed to death in the comments on that blog and others, but reading it might be very boring, so I'll repeat my stance on it (I'm a guy implementing numpy on pypy): NumPy that's faster is already very interesting for many people,
549.
by fijal 15y ago
Hey. While I generally grossly disagree with Travis in regard to how far PyPy can go I wonder what kind of perspective are you talking about?
550.
by fijal 15y ago
Well, for what is worth there is absolutely no due process for being denied entry to the US as a non-citizen. I would really not try to be uncooperative and I'll heavily try to look very very dumb (I guess it's some sort of lying). As a non
551.
by fijal 15y ago
This website is horrible to read, occupies about 12% of my screen and does not even support turning pages using keys! EFF, you can do better than that.
552.
by fijal 15y ago
It's always controversial to claim performance numbers without any actual evidence. Note that shootout numbers are by far not evidence about web-server performance.
553.
by fijal 15y ago
FYI downvoting mostly affects posts with no content or poor reasoning (usually both). I don't agree with you, but I will not downvote you because of that. I'll only answer one point: > Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests [not e
554.
by fijal 15y ago
Well, maybe we have a slightly different definition of complex. Browser interprocess communication is IMO relatively simple and/or not performance critical, more so all those structures already must have a serializable format because they
555.
by fijal 15y ago
"It works great" can I have your browser? It works great for doing completely independent tasks (like rendering unrelated websites) and this is as far as it goes. I would not call it "complex interprocess communication" since there is almos
556.
by fijal 15y ago
well. it's not entirely true, if distributed systems were the future, we would never see multi-core systems at all, there are still tasks that are much easier to do if you have them done on a single shared-memory system then distributed.
557.
by fijal 15y ago
Separate processes is completely unworkable for the kind of work armin has in mind. Web servers are very specific - there is very little data shared between processes, because web is mostly stateless and the entire state can be encoded in S
558.
by fijal 15y ago
Fortunately for you, we're only dealing with things like addition, multiplication, maybe sinus and even so we rely on the processor to do the job :-) The rest is dealt by numeric guys from the original numpy and we're simply reusing those p
559.
by fijal 15y ago
I would like to point out that things like "Rules to hike into wilderness" are mostly and American phenomena and not loved that wildly by the rest of the world.
560.
by fijal 15y ago
my connection is sometimes below any arbitrary technical standard and I still want to get my bytes through if possible.
561.
by fijal 15y ago
Sounds like just a lot of people on GPRS accessing a website :)
562.
by fijal 15y ago
Same in South Africa
563.
by fijal 15y ago
I for one, would welcome the entire Silicon Valley to move somewhere else.
564.
by fijal 15y ago
So far just faster python have been a killer feature for some people :) True, it does not fit anyone, but hey, nothing does.
565.
by fijal 15y ago
Seriously, pypy outperforms Cython in pretty much all cases unless you provide type informations and even then, pypy is often faster. Complex projects, like twisted or django tend to have a flat performance profile - in order to run them re
566.
by fijal 15y ago
Can you provide a citation for a reasonable benchmark where lisp outperforms pypy by a fair margin? Or LuaJIT? Or did you just pull that out of thin air and gossip?
567.
by fijal 15y ago
I'm happy to see the world where not all programs are like emacs. Don't get me wrong - I like and use emacs, but I would not like to do some M-x magic in a text buffer to get some web experience.
568.
by fijal 15y ago
For those who have no idea (like me) about what investing in tulips in 1630s looked like here is a link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
569.
by fijal 15y ago
I don't think it works that way. People who are good at coding are not necesarilly people who are good at creating businesses (not always, but usually).
570.
Talent shortage? What talent shortage?(lostinjit.blogspot.com)
31 points by fijal 15y ago|7 comments

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