[pypy-dev] Diploma Thesis on Pypy

[Luciano Ramalho]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 6:37 PM, George Papanikolaou
<g3orge.app at gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all thanks for answering, yes I'll pop on IRC soon.
> My thesis will be for an undergraduate degree
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_degree#Greece) so I guess I can go
> for an engineering project more than a research-y one. How hard would
> implementing the 3.0 spec be? It sounds tedious but pretty standard. I'll get
> started right away with your advice in order to get familiar with the VM, the
> environment and coding nuisances in general.

Important stuff todo, and not tedious at all. Python 3.3 introduced
the `yield from` construct and other changes in generator semantics.
The asyncio library depends on them and many Pypy users would love to
use it.

Cheers,

Luciano


>
> Regards,
> George
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Richard Plangger <planrichi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I finished my thesis recently implementing a vectorizing optimization.
>> So I guess it is feasible :). My advice would be to build the VM and
>> make some baby steps in the test environment. This might sound weird,
>> but the development is very different to what you do at university (at
>> least in austria) and also very different to most projects I know.
>>
>> I think there are many possible ways you could improve PyPy. It is hard
>> to give some advice on exactly what you should implement. After all you
>> need to be motivated until you finish your thesis.
>> It would probably be better to think about a topic (VM X does Y), see if
>> PyPy implemented Y (you can of course ask us, it is hard to get around
>> in such a big project in the beginning), (if not) reflect if it gives
>> any benefit for the VM and then implement it.
>>
>> Here is a list of potential projects (might get you started):
>> http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html
>> What really would help PyPy (might be more engineering than a
>> 'researchy' topic) is to implement the Python 3 spec (e.g. 3.3,3.4,3.5).
>> You can also join IRC and we will see if we can help to choose a topic.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richard
>>
>> On 10/30/2015 06:46 PM, George Papanikolaou wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm a CS student at the University of Patras in Greece, and I'm really
>>> interested in doing my thesis on programming language theory, compilers JIT
>>> optimization etc. I find your project really interesting and I'd like you to
>>> advice me if there is any potential for my thesis here. A contribution maybe.
>>> Is it feasible?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for all answers and considerations,
>>> George
>>>
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