Like every year, the PyPy developers and a couple of newcomers gathered in Leysin, Switzerland, to share their thoughts and contribute to the development of PyPy.
As always, we had interesting discussions about how we could
improve PyPy, to make it the first choice for even more
developers. We also made some progress with current issues, like
compatibility with Python 3.6 and improving the performance of
CPython extension modules, where we fixed a lot of bugs and gained
new insights about where and how we could tweak PyPy.
We were very happy about the number of new people who joined us
for the first time, and hope they enjoyed it as much as everyone
else.
Topics
We worked on the following topics (and more!):- Introductions for newcomers
- Python 3.5 and 3.6 improvements
- CPyExt performance improvements and GC implementation
- JIT: guard-compatible implementation
- Pygame performance improvements
- Unicode/UTF8 implementation
- CFFI tutorial/overview rewrite
- py3 test runners refactoring
- RevDB improvements
Attendees
- Arianna
- Jean-Daniel
- Stefan Beyer
- Floris Bruynooghe
- Antonio Cuni
- René Dudfield
- Manuel Jacob
- Ronan Lamy
- Remi Meier
- Matti Picus
- Armin Rigo
- Alexander Schremmer
Cheers,
Stefan
