[pypy-dev] unlurking
Douglas McNeil
mcneil at astro.queensu.ca
Mon Dec 6 18:07:01 CET 2004
Hi, all.
Brief intro: Canadian astronomy graduate student, does lots of python
programming, thinks pypy is a cool idea and has been lurking for a long
time. :)
Some of my codes are in C for speed reasons, but they're a lot uglier than
the python equivalents would be.. I really wish there were a way to get C
speed out of python without going the numarray/pyrex/weave routes, so the
translator/annotator stuff interests me for reasons entirely unrelated to
pypy itself. Numeric codes tend not to be very dynamic so static analysis
should be able to go a long way.
The translator code is surprisingly easy to read! It didn't take long
before I had fun playing with flowgraph optimization. Just cheap hacks to
do loop hoisting and remove more deadops, making dangerous assumptions all
over the place, and adding a SomeFloat type to see how that works, but it
was nice to see that after a lot of dir(this) and dir(that) to grok the
data structure you get the hang of it. The flowgraph viewer helped a lot.
I have a thousand questions but I should see what more I can learn from
the code itself first before troubling anyone! Congratulations on getting
the funding, and here's hoping Guido's wrong about what python 3.0's
written in. :)
Doug
--
Queen's University Astronomy Research Group
Planetary Dynamics Division "We create worlds."
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