tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post1402303968715807009..comments2024-03-11T12:50:02.036+01:00Comments on PyPy Status Blog: PyPy Usage SurveyCarl Friedrich Bolz-Tereickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00518922641059511014noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-18050006906193152562011-08-04T22:21:00.000+02:002011-08-04T22:21:00.000+02:00Numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and image are the stick ...Numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and image are the stick ups for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-40234803493950408372011-06-02T16:29:08.232+02:002011-06-02T16:29:08.232+02:00The only thing that makes me not using pypy is the...The only thing that makes me not using pypy is the lack of supporting python bynaries .so, .pyd, etc.<br />I know that is a hard feature to implement because is needed to stub the CPython api.<br />but I think when its done will there is no reasons to not using pypy for anybody.Caetanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669229735242018783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-23678908344382717402011-06-02T16:21:18.965+02:002011-06-02T16:21:18.965+02:00I'm interesting in psycopg2and PIL libraries.I'm interesting in psycopg2and PIL libraries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-46252659719568151502011-06-02T03:49:05.521+02:002011-06-02T03:49:05.521+02:00would love to see the resultswould love to see the resultsAlmir Karichttp://almirkaric.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-15355652104450706542011-05-30T13:59:56.254+02:002011-05-30T13:59:56.254+02:00How long are you planning to keep this poll open? ...How long are you planning to keep this poll open? I hope you will blog about its results when it's closed...Gaëtan de Mentennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-6420813077039821832011-05-23T19:44:57.436+02:002011-05-23T19:44:57.436+02:00Arrgh, gevent does not work with pypy? There's...Arrgh, gevent does not work with pypy? There's my blocker.lazywebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15976271005193416609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-53086507876425473572011-05-23T16:21:33.488+02:002011-05-23T16:21:33.488+02:00Well, basically, it's NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib...Well, basically, it's NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and MayaVi. I'm also using Cython to optimize computation intensive code paths, but of course it would be nicer to stick to pure Python and let JIT do it's magic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-59182552857218155762011-05-23T08:35:42.425+02:002011-05-23T08:35:42.425+02:00@Hart: unladen swallow is dead:
http://qinsb.blog...@Hart: unladen swallow is dead:<br /><br />http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.htmlCarl Friedrich Bolz-Tereickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00518922641059511014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-5791051456516944272011-05-23T04:48:39.401+02:002011-05-23T04:48:39.401+02:00The pypy group should make a full featured ide wit...The pypy group should make a full featured ide with a gui designer with built in packaging to .exe and linux .deb and .rpm that only runs the pypy vm. That would bring the desktop application programmers in by the droves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-65359289479657902772011-05-23T01:53:01.357+02:002011-05-23T01:53:01.357+02:00Its all about compatibility with 3rd party libs, C...Its all about compatibility with 3rd party libs, C libs or boost::python. Otherwise those who want to JIT their Python are just going to wait a bit longer for PEP 3146 so they can have a good LLVM based JIT in standard Python.<br /><br />http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/raptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14287416587600419675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-12043259560772422622011-05-18T14:26:44.358+02:002011-05-18T14:26:44.358+02:00On my server I'm running couple of Django base...On my server I'm running couple of Django based ecommerce systems. I hope to be running more of them soon (hopefully). There is also PostgreSQL. Still not using PyPy but I just can't wait to check if it will be faster and if so then how much. I don't know yet how to run Django app on production on PyPy but as soon I check and run couple of performance tests I will surely give some feedback.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-70447247428737424292011-05-17T17:38:13.364+02:002011-05-17T17:38:13.364+02:00I've a project wich use psyco with a factor 15...I've a project wich use psyco with a factor 15 (computation of train path) ! yes really, this project is in production (unfortunately not open source) ! I just tried it with pypy 1.5, and it works with the same factor (congratulation to you). So i'm sure that we'll use pypy.<br /><br />But like my other project, i don't change something wich already works. Most of them don't need speed improvement.<br /><br />On one scrabble game i'd like to replace a scrabble solver in C (if someone wants to help, it's opensource ?)<br /><br />I also hope to see a debian package in the next debian release...<br /><br />Thanks for your work, i follow it !wilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15960294417115031870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-721885748434026822011-05-17T16:48:55.570+02:002011-05-17T16:48:55.570+02:00I would like to repeat the numpy and scipy thing. ...I would like to repeat the numpy and scipy thing. I have to add matplotlib, which a lot of people use for plotting. Personally I also cannot live without h5py, which is awesome for storing and handling numerical data. I have no idea if it will work with pypy, because it does require numpy first.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to pypy becoming faster, better supported, and more popular! I am convinced that it will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-7121490529487848672011-05-17T10:18:14.595+02:002011-05-17T10:18:14.595+02:00@martin
* numpy, scipy support is on the way
* 3...@martin<br /><br />* numpy, scipy support is on the way<br /><br />* 32bit windows is done, 64bit windows will happen, it's on the todo list<br /><br />* PSF has just endorsed PyPy in front of 1000 people crowd on pycon giving us a 10000$ check (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yLUKuyRgjdg/TYfklB5Jg4I/AAAAAAAABKM/_5Rv2thqzA0/s1600/pycon_cheque.jpg).<br /><br />That answers roughly half to 3/4 of your issues, no bad, we're getting there :)Maciej Fijalkowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11410841070239382771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-63253533330002476442011-05-17T10:14:06.003+02:002011-05-17T10:14:06.003+02:00We would like to profit from the speedup, but it w...We would like to profit from the speedup, but it would be a major piece of work for us, as we're currently running Zope 2.13 (which we could replace, because we make only limited use of it and have our own hybrid database). However, before making an investment, we need to be sure that:<br /><br><br />- PyPy won't go away like Psyco did. A kind of "mainstream endorsement" by PSF would be helpful<br /><br><br />- numpy and scipy are available <br><br />- a decent ODBC package is available (we're using mxODBC) at the moment<br><br />- full support on Windows 32 and 64 bit<br /><br /><br><br />Best regards, Martin<br><br /> Swisscom IT Services FinanceMartin Gfellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487011018225699773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-44374652165789569752011-05-17T07:52:15.380+02:002011-05-17T07:52:15.380+02:00I'd love to use PyPy in some of my projects, b...I'd love to use PyPy in some of my projects, but they rely on lots of 3rd-party C/C++-based libraries.<br /><br />1) lxml, thats an absolute must for most of my applications. Original ETree now lacks many features lxml has, so there is no ready pure-python replacement avail.<br />2) Some my own boost::python libraries. I didn't actually try to compile them on PyPy, but as I was told on IRC, support for b::p is still marginal.<br />3) PycURL, PyV8, PyQt, wxPython and so on.Daniel Kluevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10255542249581153484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-2092032428771471492011-05-16T21:20:54.725+02:002011-05-16T21:20:54.725+02:00We would use it across all our deployments (hundre...We would use it across all our deployments (hundreds of thousands of LOCs) and gladly contribute and invest in pypy as soon as you guys implement python3 spec. Literally can't wait.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-19015793273936890992011-05-16T21:05:51.031+02:002011-05-16T21:05:51.031+02:002. A comprehensive listing of modules that can and...<i>2. A comprehensive listing of modules that can and cannot be used with PyPy. I'm still not quite clear as to how PyPy interacts with the major web frameworks and WSGI (haven't researched it much either).</i><br /><br />This is available at <a href="https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Home" rel="nofollow">the PyPy Compatibility Wiki</a> (I should update it this week, lots of new information around).Victorhttps://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Homenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-14301672364497921832011-05-16T20:46:22.273+02:002011-05-16T20:46:22.273+02:00Could you provide the downloads with PGP signature...Could you provide the downloads with PGP signatures, please? We would like to use PyPy in production to run our payment processing system backend, but verified integrity and authenticity of its source code is strictly required.Pavelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-53478560428629134862011-05-16T20:35:42.080+02:002011-05-16T20:35:42.080+02:001. Installation is long and non-intuitive. I'd...1. Installation is long and non-intuitive. I'd like to see PyPy packaged up for all the major distros + Mac OSX via Fink, Homebrew, and MacPorts.<br /><br />2. A comprehensive listing of modules that can and cannot be used with PyPy. I'm still not quite clear as to how PyPy interacts with the major web frameworks and WSGI (haven't researched it much either).<br /><br />3. Drop-in replacement for Python 2.7. I want my scripts that I wrote in Python to run in PyPy with no complications.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-23119625140297606082011-05-16T20:22:10.368+02:002011-05-16T20:22:10.368+02:00Pypy needs to either be a dropin replacement for p...Pypy needs to either be a dropin replacement for python or provide a significant (order of magnitude) difference in performance that moving to pypy won't be as big of a deal when you lose the support of so many 3rd party libraries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-84465227537711767102011-05-16T20:12:42.813+02:002011-05-16T20:12:42.813+02:00I suggest that you reproduce this survey on StackO...I suggest that you reproduce this survey on StackOverflow (if it's acceptable there, maybe Programmers?) and Quora, maybe Convore too. Posting to comp.lang.python would also help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-27302873554669252402011-05-16T19:55:01.164+02:002011-05-16T19:55:01.164+02:00Biggest blocker right now is gevent, which I belie...Biggest blocker right now is gevent, which I believe would require pypy stackless and JIT to get along plus some work to make gevent use ctypes in place of cpython api.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971202189709462152.post-78606295363496128572011-05-16T19:23:52.524+02:002011-05-16T19:23:52.524+02:00We are very interested in using PyPy in production...We are very interested in using PyPy in production but our project is based on lxml library and both are incompatible. Do you suggest any fix for this? I'm not sure if PyPy would compensate the reduction if performance of a pure Python XML library.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com