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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: Teaching ShedSkin at PyCon 2012
From: Raphael Clifford <drr...@gmail.com>
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Just a note that you might want to try pypy 1.8. People always get
upset when you use old versions of their software :)

Raphael

On 6 February 2012 18:09, Ian Ozsvald <i...@ianozsvald.com> wrote:
> Darn, oh well, no distractions in the tutorial I guess :-) I showed my
> business partner today (with/without ShedSkin) - he was most
> impressed. This nicely explains the obvious benefit of ShedSkin over
> Cython - no need to annotate a large codebase to get a great speedup.
>
> Do you have a gut feel whether the emulator might run in PyPy (i.e.
> can the GUI component be easily removed)? I'm not thinking of doing it
> now but I'm sure someone will ask.
>
> In my rough testing today ShedSkin and Cython were about neck and neck
> once all the optimisations were in place, but Cython required a chunk
> of work (as before). PyPy is faster than before but still an order of
> magnitude slower than the best ShedSkin. I'll report figures when I'm
> happy with my code (today was just flexing it to check everything was
> install ok).
>
> The ShedSkin-with-complex numbers Mandelbrot was slightly slower than
> without-complex-numbers but they're mostly 'the same', unlike when I
> taught last year. Nice job.
>
> Ian.
>
> On 6 February 2012 18:09, Mark Dufour <mark.duf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi ian,
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Ian Ozsvald <i...@ianozsvald.com> wrote:
>>> I also meant to ask - is IK+ playable? I tried hitting various keys but it
>>> just played the demo.
>>
>> thanks!! no, I'm afraid not.. not with the current version of the
>> emulator in shedskin/examples. F1 is used to start the game, but it
>> results in a garbled screen. I just tried the upstream version, same
>> result.. :S
>>
>> thanks again,
>> mark.
>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> On Feb 5, 2012 10:17 PM, "Ian Ozsvald" <i...@ianozsvald.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mark (and all). Building on last year's High Performance Python
>>>> tutorial at EuroPython I'm teaching an updated version at PyCon this
>>>> year in Santa Clara (4 weeks to go).
>>>>
>>>> I've just compiled the ShedSkin 0.9.1 on my Ubuntu 11.10 8 core laptop
>>>> and tried the c64 demo with/without ShedSkin - very nice! I get around
>>>> 3-5fps without and 80-120fps with it.
>>>>
>>>> I'll be updating my course notes, I'll re-run the Mandelbrot code and
>>>> report back if anything looks odd (though hopefully there'll still be
>>>> a nice story to tell between ShedSkin and PyPy/Cython :-)
>>>>
>>>> Ian.
>>>>
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