[shedskin] cool new example

[Mark Dufour]

hi all,

just a quick note that there's this cool new example in GIT examples/, a 1,050 sloc raytracer. the author has only just started working on it, but see attachment for what it can already do. after some quick changes to the original version to avoid lots of allocations, it is now about 55 times faster on my system. the frontend (examples/pylot_main.py) has a simple GUI and uses multiprocessing to run several instances of the compiled extension module in parallel.

the author has lots of plans for improvements, so it will be interesting to see how well shedskin is able to cope as the program grows.


thanks,
mark.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LsfnBmdnk

[Mark Dufour]

and here's the output of another new example for 0.7..

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LsfnBmdnk