Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations

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Date	2015-06-29 00:19 -0700
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Subject	Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations
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Le dimanche 28 juin 2015 09:32:09 UTC+2, Stefan Behnel a écrit :
> Michael Torrie schrieb am 26.06.2015 um 19:32:
> > I've never heard of pythran; I'll have to check it out and see how it
> > compares to the ever-growing crop of Python dialect compilers.
> 
> My feeling is that Python seems such a simple language at the surface that
> people who want to write a special purpose "Python subset" compiler prefer
> starting from scratch, rather than contributing to the existing tools. It
> takes a while until they understand the actual size of that undertaking and
> that's the point where most of these projects just die.
> 
> I don't mean all of them. If you have enough time and/or money, you can
> certainly get a project going that's relevant enough for a critical
> (special purpose) user base to provide an actual benefit. But then, why
> invest that time into something completely new that requires major
> long-term maintenance efforts, when implementing the desired feature in an
> existing compiler would be a one-time investment with a much smaller
> overall impact on further maintenance costs?
> 
> Not Invented Here Syndrome, I guess...
> 
> Stefan

There are even people who naively tried to reinvent
"Unicode", without seeing they failed.

Simply unbelievable.

jmf

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HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-21 01:29 +0100
  Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-06-21 10:29 +0100
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-21 15:43 +0200
  Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2015-06-23 18:53 +0200
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-26 11:32 -0600
    Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2015-06-28 09:31 +0200
      Re: HOPE: A Python just-in-time compiler for astrophysical computations wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-06-29 00:19 -0700

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