Re: [pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread VanL
On 7/15/2011 2:31 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: I know, this is kind of hand-waving what has to be done, I would probably start with having two interpreters in one executable, probably by having two object spaces. Cheers, fijal And if I may ask, what are you trying to achieve? Two (or more)

Re: [pypy-dev] Benchmarks

2011-07-15 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Antonio Cuni > wrote: > > I think that armin investigated this, and the outcome was that it's > because of > > the changes we did in the GC during the sprint. Armin, do you confirm? > > Do we have a so

Re: [pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:05 PM, VanL wrote: >> On 7/15/2011 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >>> >>> By design, a single process thing is slightly less secure. If you say >>> find a way to corrupt random memory, you can modify the ot

Re: [pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:05 PM, VanL wrote: > On 7/15/2011 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: >> >> By design, a single process thing is slightly less secure. If you say >> find a way to corrupt random memory, you can modify the other process, >> it's still only very slightly though. The sandboxi

Re: [pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread VanL
On 7/15/2011 1:50 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: By design, a single process thing is slightly less secure. If you say find a way to corrupt random memory, you can modify the other process, it's still only very slightly though. The sandboxing approach should work quite nicely, the hard part would

Re: [pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread Maciej Fijalkowski
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:09 PM, VanL wrote: > I have a couple questions about the sandboxing feature: > > - Currently this is a two-process model, but early on the assertion was made > that this could be done in a single process, perhaps but not necessarily > separated by two OS-level threads. Is

[pypy-dev] Sandboxing questions

2011-07-15 Thread VanL
I have a couple questions about the sandboxing feature: - Currently this is a two-process model, but early on the assertion was made that this could be done in a single process, perhaps but not necessarily separated by two OS-level threads. Is this (still?) true? What would you need to invoke

Re: [pypy-dev] Düsseldorf sprint at the end of august?

2011-07-15 Thread Romain Guillebert
Hi Just to let you know that I will come except if the sprint occurs during the week of the 31st of August (I have an oral exam that I already postponed to attend to the Genova sprint). Cheers Romain ___ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://

Re: [pypy-dev] Benchmarks

2011-07-15 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Antonio Cuni wrote: > I think that armin investigated this, and the outcome was that it's because of > the changes we did in the GC during the sprint. Armin, do you confirm? > Do we have a solution? I confirm, and still have no solution. I tried to devise a

Re: [pypy-dev] Benchmarks

2011-07-15 Thread Antonio Cuni
On 12/07/11 01:20, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > Hi > > I'm a bit worried with our current benchmarks state. We have around 4 > benchmarks that had reasonable slowdowns recently [cut] Ok, let's try to make a summary of what we discovered about benchmark regressions. > > Current list: > > http:/

[pypy-dev] Düsseldorf sprint at the end of august?

2011-07-15 Thread Antonio Cuni
Hi all, I know that there is a vague plan to have a sprint in Düsseldorf in the last week of august, on time with the end of Eurostars. Can we make it more concrete, decided the dates, and announce it, please? It's very likely that I'll go on vacation in the 3rd week of august, thus it would be