Collin Winter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: >> An ars technica articla just linked to in a python-list post >> >> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars >> >> calls the following project "Google launched" >> http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan >> >> (Though the project page does not really claim that.) > > Hi, I'm the tech lead for Unladen Swallow. Jeffrey Yasskin and Thomas > Wouters are also working on this project. > > Unladen Swallow is Google-sponsored, but not Google-owned. This is an > open-source branch that we're working on, focused on performance, and > we want to move all of our work upstream as quickly as possible. In > fact, right now I'm adding a last few tests before putting our cPickle > patches up on the tracker for further review. Thank you for the answers and comments. Pickle speedups will be welcomed by many. It comes up on python-list from time to time. > >> I am sure some people here might find this interesting. >> >> I'd love to have a faster CPython, but this note: >> "Will probably kill Python Windows support (for now)." >> would kill merger back into mainline (for now) without one opposing being >> 'conservative'. > > To clarify, when I wrote 'conservative', I wasn't being disparaging. A Sorry I was mislead. Perhaps you might want to rewrite to sound more like what you have written here -- something like "There is a risk we will be unable to justify the more radical changes that we propose." > resistance to change can certainly be a good thing, and something that > I think is very healthy in these situations. We certainly have to > prove ourselves, especially given some of the fairly radical things > we're thinking of [1]. We believe we can justify these changes, but I > *do* want to be forced to justify them publicly; I don't think > python-dev would be doing its job if some of these things were merely > accepted without discussion. [snip] Terry
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