Author: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5945:6cdc3695cb72 Date: 2019-02-09 17:18 +0100 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/6cdc3695cb72/
Log: some typos diff --git a/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst b/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst --- a/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst +++ b/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst @@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ Hello everyone! We are happy to report a successful and well attended sprint that is wrapping up -in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the last week we had eighteen people sprinting at the -Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf on various topics. Big chunk of the sprint -was dedicated to various discussions, since we did not manage to gather -core developers in one room in quite a while. Discussion topics included: +in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the last week we had eighteen people sprinting +at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf on various topics. A big +chunk of the sprint was dedicated to various discussions, since we did not +manage to gather the core developers in one room in quite a while. +Discussion topics included: * Funding and general sustainability of open source. -* Catching up with CPython 3.7/3.8 - we are planning to release 3.6 some time +* Catching up with CPython 3.7/3.8 – we are planning to release 3.6 some time in the next few months and we will continue working on 3.7/3.8. * What to do with VMprof @@ -18,13 +19,13 @@ * How can we support Cython inside PyPy in a way that will be understood by the JIT, hence fast. -* The future of supporting the numeric stack on pypy - we have made significant - progress in the past few years and most of numeric stack works out of the box, +* The future of supporting the numeric stack on pypy – we have made significant + progress in the past few years and most of the numeric stack works out of the box, but deployment and performance remain problems. Improving on those problems - remain a very important focus for pypy as a project. + remains a very important focus for PyPy as a project. -* Using the presence of CPython developer (Łukasz Langa) and Graal python developer - (Tim Felgentreff) we discussed ways to collaborate in order to improve python +* Using the presence of a CPython developer (Łukasz Langa) and a Graal Python developer + (Tim Felgentreff) we discussed ways to collaborate in order to improve Python ecosystem across implementations. * Pierre-Yves David and Georges Racinet from octobus gave us an exciting demo @@ -36,23 +37,23 @@ test! Tobias Oberstein from Crossbar GmbH and Rodolph Perfetta from ARM joined the sprint to help kickstart the project. -* Long running math-improvements branch that was started by Stian Andreassen got merged +* The long running math-improvements branch that was started by Stian Andreassen got merged after bugfixes done by Alexander Schremmer. It should improve operations on large integers. -* Arcane art of necromancy was used to revive long dormant regalloc branch started +* The arcane art of necromancy was used to revive long dormant regalloc branch started and nearly finished by Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick. The branch got merged and gives some modest speedups across the board. * Andrew Lawrence worked on MSI installer for PyPy on windows. -* Łukasz worked on improving failing tests on PyPy 3.6 branch. He knows very obscure - details of CPython, hence we managed to progress very quickly on the 3.6 branch. +* Łukasz worked on improving failing tests on the PyPy 3.6 branch. He knows very obscure + details of CPython (e.g. how pickling works), hence we managed to progress very quickly. -* Matti Picus set up new benchmarking server for PyPy 3 branches. +* Matti Picus set up a new benchmarking server for PyPy 3 branches. -* Utf8 branch, which changes the internal representation of unicode might be finally - merged at some point very soon. That gives significant speedups in a lot of cases - handling strings. +* The Utf8 branch, which changes the internal representation of unicode might be finally + merged at some point very soon. We discussed and improved upon the last few + blockers. It gives significant speedups in a lot of cases handling strings. * Zlib was missing couple methods, which were added by Ronan Lamy and Julian Berman. @@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ * Antonio Cuni and Matti Picus worked on 7.0 release which should happen in a few days. +Now we are all quite exhausted, and are looking forward to catching up on sleep. + Best regards, Maciej Fijałkowski, Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick and the whole PyPy team. _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
