Yes, I’m still alive. I am sitting here on the top floor of the Physics institute of the Heidelberg university where the PyPy sprint has been happening this week (photos here). Most other people are lingering outside on the terrace for the “technical board meeting”, deciding among other things whether I will get some kind […]
Tomorrow I’m leaving for a longer period of city-hopping across Europe. First up next week is the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) Conference in Brussels. I’m registered as a student volunteer which means I get free accomodation for helping out with various tasks a few hours a day. On the way back to Switzerland I […]
I have been working on the array module the past days. The current version already passes all compliance tests when run on top of CPython. But the integration with PyPy still poses some potentially hard problems. They’re mostly caused by the tight coupling of the array module to C data types. E.g., how can I […]
This is part 2 of my informal sprint report. Here’s part 1.
On the third sprint day in Göteborg I finally kicked off my actual SoC project, rewriting the _sre and array modules in Python. I sat together with Armin to discuss some details. We agreed on the basic requirement that will be used to evaluate […]
I’ve never heard anyone actually utter the term, but there was supposedly a talk about it at EuroPython: sprint-driven development. This is one of the areas where PyPy is truly innovative. The core developers and other interested parties, although strewn all over Europe, meet pretty regulary for a few days of joint, intense development. This […]