Re: PyPy 1.4.1 and the ZTK
Jim Fulton <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Martijn Faassen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I thought it'd be interesting to note that PyPy 1.4.1 (with JIT) now > works out of the box with buildout (at least if I use the '-d' option > for distribute with bootstrap.py, but I suspect plain setuptools also > works). I actually added a few compatibility fixes to buildout the other > day that are now unnecessary: PyPy 1.4.1 adds the compatibility with > released versions of buildout out of the box. Cool. > This makes it possible to start testing some of the ZTK with PyPy. There > are challenges of course: certain packages, such as zope.interface, use > C extensions and would need to be installed in "plain-python" mode (if > available). It is available. The setup script could, presumably, detect if it is running under PyPy and not even try building extensions. > The ZODB would definitely be an interesting challenge too. This is something I want. The hardest part of this is coming up with a Python BTree implementation. > One snag is that PyPy is only compatible up to Python 2.5. This might > make some of the code fail. Then again, if it's the 'with' statement the > fix is an "from __future__ import with_statement" away. > > A release of PyPy with Python 2.7 support is still a while away, but > being worked on. > > The benefit of using PyPy? It has a JIT on board, so that should speed > up some code significantly. It would be cool to see some ZTK-related benchmarks. > Whether it'll speed up some of our tests is > hard to say though - the JIT might be more overhead than gain in that case. I haven't found tests to be good measures of performance improvements. Thanks for pointing this out. Jim -- Jim Fulton _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )