After last weeks meetup, there was a tweet...
This was mentioned from Wed's #PythonIreland meetup (post-talks
in pub)
-- Unladen Swallow is dead - http://bit.ly/eRr9Zp
Unfortunately, the context of the conversation was missed in the tweet.
I was noting that I had compiled and tried out PyPy. Recently, PyPy 1.4
was released which looks like a very solid implementation. I said at the
time that I had problems running setuptools with it and Alan pushed me
towards distribute.
After spending more time on it, firstly the problems I had were my own
creation. I did not install pypy correctly. It now runs smoothly.
I tried setuptools and distribute. They both worked OK but fell down on
my complex workload. I found pip to be the best option.
I recommend everyone try it out if they want to make code run faster, if:
1. your code is Python 2.5 compatible
2. you don't rely on C extensions *
3. you have memory to spare
Warning - building from the source is an overnight job.
* From the mailing list it appears C extensions should work if they
don't mess with stack frames. I am investigating this area further.
If anyone wants me to benchmark a snippet on my server, send it through.
References:
pypy download: http://pypy.org/download.html
Kevin
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