Hi there On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Boria Feigin wrote:
Hi, All I am an undergraduate student (at a top-5 CS university in the UK) looking for a fun final-year project to sink my teeth into. Over the last couple of months, I became quite interested in programming languages, interpreters, virtual machines, and so on. I found out about PyPy at Holger Krekel's talks at 21C3 in December and now it seems like an ideal way to do all of these things! Can anyone suggest pointers to areas of PyPy that need work? Or, better yet, ideas that need further development -- research in literature, prototyping, and implementation?
I will try to answer this - maybe the others can fill in?First of all - thank you for your interest in PyPy! We have lots of work ;-) - the main question is how familiar you are with Python specifically and wether you have read the documentation that exists on Codespeak?
As to the research aspect - we are just now entering our second phase of the funded (EU) side of PyPy and the upcoming 9 months is all about optimizations and exploration so there should be interesting stuff to do that could fit well for a final year project.
In October, 10-16th to be more exact we will meet up to sprint in Paris and we will devote some time to plan the work in phase 2 in some more detail. Maybe we could get back to you after that?
Meanwhile (if you havent done so already) you could read some of the documentation and identify areas of interest to you?
Thanks for your time. Please CC me -- I am not on the list. -- Boris
Cheers Beatrice Düring Assistant project manager/PyPy The non techie person ;-)
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