Nick Coghlan, 12.03.2011 12:43:
I posted my rough notes and additional write-ups for Wednesday's VM
summit and Thursday's language summit:
http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-vm-summit-rough-notes.html
http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-vm-summit-somewhat-coherent.html
http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-language-summit-rough-notes.html
http://www.boredomandlaziness.org/2011/03/python-language-summit-highlights.html
It appears that there has been little mention of Cython at the summit,
despite of the speed of CPython being a major topic, according to the
notes. I can see several areas where Cython could help in speeding up core
CPython, one of the most obvious being compilation of standard library
modules, and JIT-like compilation of Python modules at import time.
Nick mentioned that there was a discussion of making C-only modules
available as alternative Python implementations. I'd like to suggest the
opposite as well: make pure Python stdlib modules optionally compilable to
fast C code using Cython. The obvious advantages are a) speed and b) a
single code base for both Python and C modules.
Stefan
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