Originally published on the PyPy blog.
The assiduous readers of this blog surely remember that during the last Düsseldorf sprint in October, we started the process for migrating our main development repository from Subversion to Mercurial. Today, after more than two months, the process has finally been completed :-).
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
In our previous blog post, we talked about how fast PyPy can translate itself compared to CPython. However, the price to pay for the 2x speedup was an huge amount of memory: actually, it was so huge that a standard -Ojit compilation could not be completed on 32-bit because it required more than the 4 GB of RAM that are addressable on that platform. On 64-bit, it consumed 8.3 GB of RAM instead of the 2.3 GB needed by CPython.
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
We have to admit: even if we have been writing for years about the fantastic speedups that the PyPy JIT gives, we, the PyPy developers, still don't use it for our daily routine. Until today :-).
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
No, we are not going to talk about the environment (i.e., the set of variables as printed by /usr/bin/env. What else? :-)).
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
Thanks to the work that was recently done on the sys-prefix branch, it is now possible to use virtualenv with PyPy.
Originally published on the PyPy blog.
So, EuroPython 2010 is over, I am flying home and it's time to write a report about the conference from the PyPy point of view.