Robert Bradshaw, 08.04.2011 01:08:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Arthur de Souza Ribeiro wrote:
I've submitted to google the link
is:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/arthur_sr/1#
It would be really important if you could give me a feedback to my
proposal...
Thank you
Best Regards
Arthur
Some quick points:
- Python ships with extensive regression tests--use (and possibly
augment) those to test your work rather than writing your own.
- Three modules for a whole summer seems a bit weak, especially for
someone who already knows Cython. Target at least one module/week
seems like a good pace; some will be quickies, others might take 40+
hours. And I guarantee you'll get better and faster with practice.
Absolutely. There certainly are tricky parts in the C code, and optimising
the Cython/Python code won't come for free, either, but after a little bit
of exercise this should run quite fluently.
- Now that generators are supported, it could also be interesting to
look at compiling all the non-C modules and fixing exposed bugs if
any, but that might be out of scope.
What I'd like to see is an implementation of a single simple but not
entirely trivial (e.g. not math) module, passing regression tests with
comprable if not better speed than the current C version (though I
think it'd probably make sense to start out with the Python version
and optimize that). E.g. http://docs.python.org/library/json.html
looks like a good candidate.
Right, that's a good one. Clearly more maintenance critical than purely
time critical, and likely a good candidate for making it both more Python
compatible (function argument handling?) and maybe even faster than the
original. And if it can be implemented/optimised in Python syntax, that'd
drop the maintenance overhead of the binary module by some 99%.
That should only take 8 hours or so,
maybe two days at most, given your background. I'm not expecting
anything before the application deadline, but if you could whip
something like this out in the next week to point to that would help
your application out immensely.
+1
In fact, one of the Python
foundation's requirements is that students submit a patch before being
accepted, and this would knock out that requirement and give you a
chance to prove yourself. Create an account on https://github.com and
commit your code into a new repository there.
Maybe even clone it from CPython's own stdlib repository in hg.
Stefan
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