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New milestone of Unladen Swallow Python JIT shows progress
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| The Unladen Swallow project, which seeks to bring a 5-fold performance boost
| to the Python programming language, has delivered its first milestone
| release. Although the project hasn't delivered real-world performance
| improvements yet, the new version is a big step forward and helps to
| demonstrate the technical viability of the effort.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/new-milestone-release-of-unladen-swallow-shows-progress.ars
Recent:
Python 2.6.2 released
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| The developers of Python, the free scripting language, have announced the
| release of version 2.6.2. This is the second bug fix release in the Python
| 2.6 development branch and contains nearly a hundred bug fixes and revisions,
| all listed in the release notes.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Python-2-6-2-released--/news/113071
The current state and future of Python
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| So what does python have to offer? It is a nice mix of procedural
| programming, object oriented and functional. That is what I love about it.
| It allows you to work in a mix of all three. It also seems that it is made
| by a bunch of people that understand that while flexibility is important
| (Perl code) you have to be able to READ and UNDERSTAND something written by
| another human being. One way python does this is by forcing you to indent
| your code. This may seem stupid to some but readability goes WAY up, when
| something is consistently indented the same way. Another way they make it
| easier to read than other languages is by making it more like natural
| language, the language is more verbose than your average language but not as
| bad as something like BASIC.
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http://techczar.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-current-state-and-future-of-python/
Google searches for holy grail of Python performance
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| 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.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars
Java: Coming Soon to Google’s App Engine
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| Google will soon announce comprehensive support for the Java programming
| language on its Google App Engine (GAE) offering. We are trying to get more
| details. Rumors of such a development emerged last year, but we can now
| confirm that it is going to happen. We have have confirmed the news and
| expect the announcement later this spring, perhaps at the much-vaunted Google
| I/O event on May 27-28th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A Google
| spokesperson declined to comment.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/03/26/java-coming-soon-to-googles-app-engine/
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
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| One current limitation is a requirement that applications be written in
| Python, a popular scripting language for building modern web apps (Ruby and
| PHP are among others widely used). Google says that Python is just the first
| supported language, and that the entire infrastructure is designed to be
| language neutral.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/google-jumps-head-first-into-web-services-with-google-app-engine/
Python Fans Take Aim at the Enterprise
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| After years in the shadows, the open source Python programming language is
| becoming increasingly mainstream. There are more users and more tools.
| Backers of Python now argue that Python is ready for the enterprise.
|
| [...]
|
| "Many businesses see the software development world in terms of Visual Basic,
| Java, and C/C++/C#. Some simply aren't aware of Python, yet, " Goodger
| argued. "Any competent programmer can easily learn Python and be productive
| within a few hours or days at most."
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3738856/Python+Fans+Take+Aim+at+the+Enterprise.htm
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