On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 18:05, Terry Reedy <tjre...@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.)
> 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'. > Well, that's "for now". It is brand new and still under active development. View it as a long term development branch. This is not about to replace CPython suddenly since work on Unladen just started. > > If one adds type annotations so that values can be unboxed, would not > Cython, etc, do even better for speedup? Nope as Unladen is planning to re-implement the eval loop, something Cython doesn't optimize without the need to suddenly start adding type annotations to code. -Brett
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