Google is sponsoring an Open Source project to increase the speed of Python by 5x. Unladen-Swallow seems to have a good project plan Why is concurrency such a hard problem? Is LLVM going to solve the concurrency problem? Are there solutions other than Multi-core for Hardware advancement? ...
What are your opinions and expectations on Google's Unladen Swallow? From their project plan: We want to make Python faster, but we also want to make it easy for large, well-established applications to switch to Unladen Swallow. Produce a version of Python at least 5x faster than CPython. Python application performanc...
I just saw this section of Unladen Swallow's documentation come up on Hacker News. Basically, it's the Google engineers saying that they're not optimistic about removing the GIL. However, it seems as though there is discussion about the garbage collector interspersed with this talk about the GIL. Could someone explain the relation to ...
has anyone used unladen-swallow with numpy/scipy for numeric/scientific applications? Is it significantly faster in your experience? Any opinions would be great. ...
I realise there aren't any official ones, but I was hoping I could grab an unofficial one from somewhere? I'm running 32-bit Windows XP on x86 hardware (Core 2 Duo). ...
It looks like Google hasn't updated the results section since the Q4 2009 posting. I've been wondering when it will be put in the Python trunk, and if it's, in any way, production ready. Also, "We aspire to do no original work" is in the Q4 plan. Did Google bite off more than what they could handle, or does anyone know what the real sto...
My project has deferred solution on integration C++ with Python until now. But now this question is raised again. Do anybody know status of project? On Google: (http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow) there is no actual info at all. Can we reckon on this project? ...