Re: PyPy 1.4.1 and the ZTK
Chris McDonough <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
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| Message-ID | <1293051371.3240.123.camel@thinko> |
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:43 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: > > 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. It already does. zope.interface falls back to using its Python implementation if it's installed on a platform that doesn't support C compilation. As does zope.i18nmessageid. > > 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. I'd be willing to work on this at a sprint. FWIW, for our web stuff I've found PyPy to be about 3X as slow as CPython (even allowing for the JIT to warm up). But the elephant dances! - C _______________________________________________ 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 )