[Python-Dev] Need for Speed Sprint status

[Steve Holden]

Neal Norwitz wrote:
> First off, good work to everyone involved.  You did a tremendous job.
> I just hope to hell you're done, because I can't keep up! :-)
> 
Not quite done yet, but I will be encouraging the team to start wrapping 
up in time to draw a line under everything that *isn't* going to 
continue by 17:00 GMT today, when we all turn into pumpkins.

> It would help me enormously if someone could summarize the status and
> everything that went on.  These are the things that would help me the
> most.
> 
>  * What are the speed diffs before/after the sprint
>  * What was modified (summary)
>  * What is left to do
>     - doc
>     - tests
>     - code
>  * Which branches are still planning to remain active
>  * Lessons learned, how we can improve for the next time
>  * Suggestions for further areas to look into improving
> 
One of today's most important missions for me is to make sure that the 
results of the sprint are adequately documented, including pointers to 
further work that might yield speedups.

> It looks like there were a lot of additions to the string test suite,
> that's great.  I'm not sure if the other areas touched got similar
> boosts to their tests.  It would be good to upgrade all tests to
> verify corner cases of the implementation.  These tests should also be
> documented that they are to test the implementation rather than the
> language spec.  We don't want to write obscure tests that can't pass
> in other impls like Jython, IronPython, or PyPy.
> 
Yes, we could really do with implementation-specific tests for this stuff.

> I will turn my amd64 box back on tomorrow and will also run Python
> through valgrind and pychecker when I get a chance.  There are a
> couple of new Coverity complaints that need to be addressed.
> 
That'll be great. Again, let me say we've had terrific support from many 
other developers. I hope the whole community benefits from this sprint.

regards
  Steve
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