On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:40:41PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote: > A new port for PyPy 1.9 is available [1]: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/src/obsd/ports/pypy.tar.gz > > "PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of the Python language > (equivalent to CPython 2.7.2)." For "pure" Python 2.7 programs, PyPy speeds > up execution by a factor of 5.5 on average [2]. > > Unfortunately, PyPy's distribution and installation mechanism is currently > rather non-standard; to make the problem tractable, the package installs into > $PREFIX/pypy-${V}.
Eeeeek. > To build PyPy, you will need a fair bit of RAM (8Gb is definitely safe; 6Gb > is probably safe). Once built, PyPy often consumes less memory than CPython. > This is amd64 only; bootstrapping i386 would be tricky and I don't have > an i386 box. They use java to build or what ? What can be so greedy and insane that it needs that much ram ? Landry
