"M1st0" <mi*******@gmai l.com> wrote in message
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I have read the proposed Ideas from
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas
And the more interesting for me were those about Optimization.
MemoryUsageProf iler
ProfileReplacem entProject
SpeedUpInterpre terStartup
But I many of this there are very few information or nothing about of
what is really needed.
I am taking a Master in Computer Science so I know many of the issues
in this topics, but I would like some hints and every usefull
information.
I hope that here is the right place for this kind of discussion.
Definitely. Brett Cannon just completed his CS thesis on the possible
speed benefit of certain type-inferencing in the compiler. He posted a
link about a week ago just after successfully defending it.
I believe some of the project suggestions may have been stimulated by his
request, over a year ago, for thesis project suggestions, of which he got
many. If/when you get more info on those specific suggestions, perhaps you
could add some of it to the Wiki.
As to startup: while 2.4 is generally faster than 2.3, etc, the time it
takes to get to the first line of code increased, due to behind-the-scenes
imports and maybe something else. There was some discussion of this on the
Python development list (gatewayed to gmane.lang.pyth on.devel). I think
the consensis was that this was not good, but that a real fix, if one was
possible, required a more thorough reexamination of the startup process
than any developer could do when 2.4 was otherwise ready to be released.
But check the pydev archives.
Terry J. Reedy
