On 11 Sep 2006, at 23:30, Scott Dial wrote: > Michael Hudson wrote: >> Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Runtime Synthesis of High-Performance Code from Scripting >>> Languages >>> Christopher Mueller and Andrew Lumsdaine >> This is (a) interesting (b) potentially stealable :-) and (c) looks >> frighteningly like translator/asm/ppcgen ... I don't know whether >> it's >> more surprising that they don't seem to know what I did or that I >> didn't know about that :-) > > (a) yes, > (b) not at the moment (restrictive license)
Yes, I saw that, but I get the impression that we could probably beg :) > (c) hmm.. > > And as for not being aware of it, well, AFAICT, this is very > recently demonstrated at SciPy 2006 (Aug 17th), and I think you can > be forgiven for not having heard of it before because I don't think > anyone else had either. Oh right. Then they should at least have heard of PPY: http:// www.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/PPY.html It would at least have saved some time typing numbers out of the back of the PPC architecture manual... > You can look at it all here: http://www.osl.iu.edu/~chemuell/new/ > sp.php Yeah, it was that that finally convinced me that it _wasn't_ based on my code :-) It also look like it might be easier to convert into RPython than my code. > I haven't met Chris, but I feel like this is one of those "small > world" moments since he literally works in the same building as me. Heh :) Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
