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This is quite fascinating as it looks like the esteemed professors run into a problem of runaway capitalism for the first time. Guess what? The corporations involved don't really care about your feelings or how pursuing their goals affects your life, your well being, anything at all here. Talking with them is kinda moot, this is full on adversarial as countless people around the world, say the nigerians dealing with oil spills would tell you.

  Location: Cape Town, RSA
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I'm a curious individual working on a variety of projects. I mostly like intersection of humans and technology, would love to talk to clients, translate that to ideas and what do we actually build. Love prototypes.

Is there a single error bar in the paper? It seems like a guess

Hi Dmitry, Hi Ryan

I love the fact that this is out! I have been the original author of vmprof and I have been working on profilers for quite some time. I'm also one of the people who worked on PyPy. We never managed to launch a SaaS product out of it, but I'm super happy to answer questions about profiling, just in time compilers and all things like that! Hit me here or in private (email in profile)

All who live in silicon Valley of course. You seem to have forgotten that "making world a better place" is a mantra repeated across the entire IT. I presume if Facebook employees actively think that, so can RIAA lawyers

That will likely be the contents of the next blog post

If you want to see an advanced Python compiler, have a look at PyPy. While CPython bytecode compiler is "dump", it's as smart as it can be. You can do crazy stuff with speculative replacing of bytecodes with guards and type-specific bytecodes, but then you might as well create a full just in time compiler. It's incredibly hard to create optimizations on bytecode level without changing semantics, which Python rightly stayed away from.

Thanks!

I'm glad to hear your company is also incorporated in Estonia. How well has it been working for you?

Hi

I suggest you don't write down in gray on white "by the way, we will also store your email". Put it somewhere either prominent or maybe outright have and opt in button for that? It's an industry wide practice, but that does not automatically make it ok.

There are two things in play here - one is that pypy is a large py2-only codebase that is unlikely to be ported. Second is that maintaining python 2 both does not cost much and it's used by the majority of our users, despite of what you hear on the internet. So, there is both good reason to keep it and a large amount of work to drop it.

While I agree with you, pypy already runs cffi fast and we are thinking how to run cython fast. That would cover a large subset of using C API I think.

I live in Cape Town where I can do surfing a bit better than in Munich ;-)

I think you are confusing CFFI (which is massively faster under pypy) with CPython C API calls (which is both slower under pypy and ones used by numpy)

The main way big corpos are sponsoring os is hiring the developers typically. That comes with a whole lot of things that some people don't want to deal with, like changing your place of residence