Friday Mar 27, 2009

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project's goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

Friday Jan 09, 2009

Found a game about programming languages comparison - http://shootout.alioth.debian.org. Great fun if you wanna show that the programming language you like most, is also the best :-) For example to show that python is better then perl:

The FAQ for the game is over here: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/faq.php

Thursday Dec 04, 2008

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

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