PyPy Status Blog

The next PyPy sprint will be held in Leysin, Switzerland, for the fifth time. The overall idea of the sprint is to continue working on maki...

Georg Brandl has put up the slides of the PyPy talk he gave at the Python User Group Munich. The slides are in German.

A few days ago, Armin discovered Gnuplot . He wrote a script that turns the results of the nightly benchmark runs into plots (lower is alw...

Old-style classes have so far been a bit neglected by PyPy's Python interpreter. By default, PyPy makes all classes new-style and you ha...

Recently I've been doing a lot of profiling on the PyPy executables to find speed bottlenecks. Valgrind (the original page seems to be...

Tomorrow evening there will be an introductory talk about PyPy at the Python User Group Munich . The talk will be given by CPython and PyPy...

In the latest bunch of tasks that Titus released on Friday for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest there are several that are rela...

Of course being "faster than c" means being faster than light. What did you think it means? :-)

It seems that we can do better! Armin fixed a bug in our generational garbage collector, which caused variable sized objects (e.g. arrays) t...

The Google Tech Talk that Samuele, Armin, Jacob and Laura gave during the US trip is now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnPmErtq...

The obligatory sprint picture post... Alexander Schremmer, Armin Rigo, Maciek Fijalkowski, Antonio Cuni Anders Chrigström, Samuele Pedr...

A more technical discussion during the sprint was about the next steps for the external module problem ( minutes ). One of PyPy's bigges...

During the sprint we had various discussions about technical issues as well as planning discussions about how we want to go about things. On...

This afternoon we merged the ropes branch that I have been working on on the side for a while (also to cut down the number of currently act...

The following week we will have a sprint in Gothenburg to clean up the PyPy codebase and make it ready for future developments. So far, onl...

In the recent days we (Carl Friedrich, Anto and me) implemented native unicode support for RPython. This means that now you can write u'...

We're slowly getting adjusted to the jet-lag (except maybe Samuele). Time to blog... The past two days at IBM, in New York, have been q...

Armin Rigo, Samuele Pedroni, Laura Creighton and Jacob Hallén are on a two-week-trip through the USA and Canada, to present PyPy to various ...

Welcome to the PyPy status blog. After we got a lot of positive feedback about the blog coverage of our Squeak/PyPy sprint in Bern we deci...