[Python-Dev] PyPy 1.7 - widening the sweet spot (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 15:46:41 CET 2011

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

Giampaolo Rodolà, 22.11.2011 10:21:

2011/11/21 Terry Reedy:

I strongly recommend that where it makes a difference, the pypy python3 project target 3.3. In particular, don't reproduce the buggy narrow-build behavior of 3.2 and before (perhaps pypy avoids this already). Do include the new unicode capi in cpyext. I anticipate that 3.3 will see more production use than 3.2 Is there a reason in particular? Well, Py3 still has a lot to catch up in terms of wide spread distribution compared to Py2.x, and new users will usually start using the most up to date release, which will soon be 3.3. Besides, 3.3 has received various optimisations that make it more suitable for production use than 3.2, including the above mentioned Unicode optimisations. Stefan

PyPy's py3k branch targets Python 3.2 until 3.3 is released and very likely 3.3 afterwards. Optimizations are irrelevant really in the case of PyPy.

Cheers, fijal

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