Really long term support
Recently, I began working on building the MeerKAT radio telescope andpossibly also the SKA radio telescope if South Africa wins the bid. There isa whole variety of analog and digital hardware running...
View ArticleMaking things happen one unittest at a time
Hello.There was a lot of discussions about our (PyPy's) plan with regardto reimplementing Numpy. I would like to give a slightly more personal viewon things as they go as well as arguments about the...
View ArticleHow fast PyPy really is?
Martijn Faassen used to ask "how fast is PyPy", so we added the --faassenoption to compile toolchain to enable all the optimizations we had. Back then,we didn't have a JIT and PyPy's interpreter was...
View ArticlePyPy's future directions
The PyPy project was long criticised for being insufficientlytransparent about the direction of its development. This changeddrastically with the introduction of the PyPy blog, Twitter stream,etc., but...
View ArticleWikipedia, tag clutter, pypy and the dangers of bureaucracy
So, the PyPy article on wikipedia first got tagged with primary sources, thenafter not so civil discussion from my side with potentially not notable.This tags are gonna stay for the time being until...
View ArticlePyPy and the road towards SciPy
HelloRecent PyPys effort to bring NumPy and the associated fundraisercaused a lot of discussion in the SciPy community regarding PyPy, NumPy,SciPy and the future of numeric computing in Python.There...
View ArticleAnalysing python's performance under PyPy
The traditional model of analysing performance of Python programs has been"run the profiler, find your bottlenecks, optimize them or move them to C".I personally find this approach grossly insufficient...
View ArticleTalent shortage? What talent shortage?
I've been recently reading a lot of articles like talent shortage in Austinor even more ridiculous ideas, like an offshore office platform on the coast ofcalifornia to battle American immigration...
View ArticlePersonal view on PyPy's future
Hello.PyPy has seen some dramatic progress in the past year with each releasedelivering roughly 30% speed improvements over the previous one. I thinkwith a roughly 3-month release cycle, this is a...
View ArticlePyPy and its future challenges
Obviously I'm biased, but I think PyPy is progressing fairly well. However,I would like to mention some areas where I think pypy is lagging ---not living up to its promises or the design decisions...
View ArticleCall for a global Immigration Reform
I'm a technology nomad. We changed camels for high powered, fossil fuel burningjets. I'm working from any place that has internet connection which istypically within hundreds of meters from any...
View ArticleCall for a new open source economy model
DISCLAIMER: This post is incredibly self-serving. It only makes sense if you believe that open source is a cost-effective way of building software and if you believe my contributions to the PyPy...
View ArticleWhy I am no longer a voting member of the Python Software Foundation
I am from Europe. It's a place behind a big body of water from the United States, generally in the direction of the east. There are few key differencies, among other things, approach to democracy. We...
View ArticleInterview questions and real software engineering
Note: This post started as an exploration of interview questions; however, the problem space is much bigger than that. I'm trying to really understand what software engineering is and why some people...
View ArticleHippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
tl;dr; We decided to go to Y combinator with HippyVM, our high performance PHP implementation, and we did not get through after two rounds of interviews.But I suppose there is more to it, so keep...
View ArticlePython C API, PyPy and the road into the future
tl;dr; We are willing to commercially support CPython C API in PyPy, so if you want pypy to support library X, get in touch with me at fijal@baroquesoftware.com. Read further for more details.Python...
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