"M1st0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have read the proposed Ideas from > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas > > And the more interesting for me were those about Optimization. > > MemoryUsageProfiler > ProfileReplacementProject > SpeedUpInterpreterStartup > > But I many of this there are very few information or nothing about of > what is really needed. > I am taking a Master in Computer Science so I know many of the issues > in this topics, but I would like some hints and every usefull > information. > > I hope that here is the right place for this kind of discussion.
Definitely. Brett Cannon just completed his CS thesis on the possible speed benefit of certain type-inferencing in the compiler. He posted a link about a week ago just after successfully defending it. I believe some of the project suggestions may have been stimulated by his request, over a year ago, for thesis project suggestions, of which he got many. If/when you get more info on those specific suggestions, perhaps you could add some of it to the Wiki. As to startup: while 2.4 is generally faster than 2.3, etc, the time it takes to get to the first line of code increased, due to behind-the-scenes imports and maybe something else. There was some discussion of this on the Python development list (gatewayed to gmane.lang.python.devel). I think the consensis was that this was not good, but that a real fix, if one was possible, required a more thorough reexamination of the startup process than any developer could do when 2.4 was otherwise ready to be released. But check the pydev archives. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
