How is your approach different from, say, Cython, Nuitka or Pythran? Regards
Antoine. On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:56:04 -0000 "Mark @pysoniq" <m...@pysoniq.com> wrote: > Hi, Anders, > > The availability of a free extension every 30 days is a big benefit to the > Python community that may not be immediately obvious. That’s not your > standard freemium, as it has all the “features” of the paid product -- full > registers, multicore, SIMD and other optimizations – so when we say it’s $600 > per year of advanced software, that’s true. Our view is that the free > extension every 30 days can make a huge difference to a developer with > funding limitations (like us). If that free extension makes their project > much more successful, then the entire Python community benefits. > > We considered this as an open source project, but we haven’t done that for > two reasons: > > We have looked for and not found a large enough community of volunteers who > have the skills to translate Python directly to assembly language without > intermediate representation, and optimize the instructions, to make it open > source. > > Open source projects are often very underfunded and don’t have enough > volunteers even from a larger pool of possible people. For example, at PyCon > 2019 Victor Stinner eloquently discussed the funding problems at python.org – > a shrinking volunteer base and growing issues list. > > If I am wrong and there is a large enough group with the requisite skills, > then of course we’re very open to the idea of open source, but the > technologies used are very leading edge. And again, if you view it with > nuance, the $600 a year (12 extensions) could make a huge difference to an > under-funded project, of which there are many! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/VTIZHUNUMKM7VTVMUCXP6LCZFKVSBUX5/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3WZZ7LYLN3DCDMQZASOSBLSVDUDSBWVO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
