On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 12:08 PM Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the blog post Oscar. I submitted it to Hacker News as > well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150867 > > I agree with all the things you wrote. I agree with the idea of having > computation subsystems that are targeted and fast. This concept is > related to what James Powell calls a "restricted computational > domain". See https://twitter.com/dontusethiscode/status/1362809888360005636 > (unfortunately you need to be signed into Twitter to read that whole > thread. If you don't have an account you can read it here > https://web.archive.org/web/20210219170345/https://twitter.com/dontusethiscode/status/1362809888360005636).
By the way, this talk in particular by James is very relevant to your work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix04KpZiUA8. I'd say your approach to making SymPy faster exactly lines up with the general framework for improving Python performance that he outlines in that talk. Aaron Meurer > > One thing I like about the polys module is that everything is > organized in layers, where the lower layers operate directly on data > structures and the top layer is designed for user interaction. The top > layer has things that are a little slower but more user friendly, like > type checking, which the bottom layers do not have. > > One of the reasons SymPy ended up the way it is is that there's really > only one symbolic system. This has made things very simple and makes > the whole thing quite easy for developers to work on, but it also > means that there's no distinction between lower level fast data > structures and higher level data structures. And in particular, it > means that slower abstractions like automatic evaluation have leaked > in which really should only ever be part of the top level layers. > > I look forward to reading the followup blog posts. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 9:14 AM Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have written a blog post about recent work on SymPy and what I think > > should be future development plans: > > > > https://oscarbenjamin.github.io/blog/czi/post1.html > > > > This is the first in a series of posts and in this one I describe what > > I think are the core parts of SymPy and outline from a high level what > > I think should be done going forwards. Subsequent posts will describe > > specific components in more detail. > > > > Oscar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxTNyu8eXUZM_SesY7DAkUbpeFd--55wzkF4opfZ1jYeUg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6Jyu1tK16aA5cuL%3Dh08hH4pCefDv8hmVf9-Zo6TiyiovA%40mail.gmail.com.
