Running wxPython on top of PyPy

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26 points·stephenjudkins··5 comments

The PyPy developers seem to be pivoting from research mode to creating an actual usable Python implementation.

I'm speculating that this has to do with the fact they're now receiving funding from Google. Google has invested in Unladen Swallow, but that project seems to have fallen pretty far short of its goals, which were less ambitious than PyPy's anyways.

I can imagine Google asking the PyPy developers to focus on creating a real-world usable Python implementation for the short/medium term.

Last time PyPy got money from google was spring 2009. They can still ask PyPy developers to do stuff :)

Heh, I guess you're right--I saw the Google code blog post and assumed it was ongoing. Mea culpa.

What's the road map for PyPy, as far as the developers are concerned?

As an on and off PyPy contributor here's my impression: the goals for the next release are going to be a) cpyext support a wide variety of real world extensions, b) keep making the JIT faster for as many apps and benchmarks as possible, c) fix a pathological condition in the GC. And in the medium term adding support for x86-64 to the JIT.

The next version of Pypy should be the one where it starts to be useful. Hopefully in the meantime they'll get a lot of the C extensions working.

Slow python is the bane of my life, so it really can't come soon enough :)

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