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Mark Dufour
Hello Python lovers,
I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.5.9. It's almost where I want it to be
for 0.0.6. What remains to be coded is some kind of connection to the
standard library (probably a simple one at first: working only for
'opaque handlers'). I also want to improve cases where ints and floats
are mixed, since this is quite common. Some major changes:
-basic exception handling
(support for custom ones, and for some builtins such as ValueError,
KeyError and AssertionError; this will allow for implementation of
iterator objects later on)
-some basic inheritance
(no multiple inheritance yet, or weird stuff; this enabled me to add
the 340-line pygmy raytracer to the test set. it becomes about 40
times faster here..)
-keyword arguments
(this has not been tested very well yet - let me know about any problems)
-many missing minor 'set' features, thanks to reports by bearophile
(it should be practically complete now. the whole set of builtins is
nearing completion
time to start optimizing stuff..)
-many, many bugfixes again, again mostly thanks to bearophile
I added four new 'big' programs to the test set that (with some minor
modifications) work now: a tic-tac-toe player for arbitrary size
boards, a simple genetics algorithm, a linear algebra program and the
mentioned raytracer. Finally, the README has been improved again,
though it's still pretty bad.
After the release of 0.0.6 I plan to create a web site with
performance comparisons between CPython, Psyco and Shed Skin (perhaps
even PyPy), because quite some interesting
programs compile now, and Shed Skin is usually a lot faster than
Psyco, except when Python builtins are the bottleneck. I guess some
more STL magic is required here..
Let the small code fragments that fail flowing!
Mark.
I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.5.9. It's almost where I want it to be
for 0.0.6. What remains to be coded is some kind of connection to the
standard library (probably a simple one at first: working only for
'opaque handlers'). I also want to improve cases where ints and floats
are mixed, since this is quite common. Some major changes:
-basic exception handling
(support for custom ones, and for some builtins such as ValueError,
KeyError and AssertionError; this will allow for implementation of
iterator objects later on)
-some basic inheritance
(no multiple inheritance yet, or weird stuff; this enabled me to add
the 340-line pygmy raytracer to the test set. it becomes about 40
times faster here..)
-keyword arguments
(this has not been tested very well yet - let me know about any problems)
-many missing minor 'set' features, thanks to reports by bearophile
(it should be practically complete now. the whole set of builtins is
nearing completion
time to start optimizing stuff..)-many, many bugfixes again, again mostly thanks to bearophile
I added four new 'big' programs to the test set that (with some minor
modifications) work now: a tic-tac-toe player for arbitrary size
boards, a simple genetics algorithm, a linear algebra program and the
mentioned raytracer. Finally, the README has been improved again,
though it's still pretty bad.
After the release of 0.0.6 I plan to create a web site with
performance comparisons between CPython, Psyco and Shed Skin (perhaps
even PyPy
), because quite some interestingprograms compile now, and Shed Skin is usually a lot faster than
Psyco, except when Python builtins are the bottleneck. I guess some
more STL magic is required here..
Let the small code fragments that fail flowing!
Mark.