On Mar 15, 3:46 pm, Gerhard Häring <g...@ghaering.de> wrote: > andrew cooke wrote: > > This looks very promising - > >http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2009_03_14.shtml#e1063 > > > I am really looking forwards to PyPy having a final release. I hope it > > happens. > > Me too. I doubt it, though. From an outside view, the project seems to > lack focus. To me, it looks like a research platform, and producing a > successor to CPython seems to be just one out of a dozen projects. > > -- Gerhard
Well, I know the guys involved and they are focused on making PyPy a practical (and importantly a faster) alternative to CPython. It has just taken a long time - but is finally showing real progress. They did get distracted along the way, but one of things that happened last year was a culling of a lot of the side projects that made it harder to make progress on the core goals. At the moment PyPy is the best hope for a native implementation of Python with an effective JIT. Michael Foord -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
