[pypy-dev] Re: PyCON bits

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 29, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> writes:
>
>> Mitchell Kapor's keynote (Using Python to Develop a Large-Scale Open 
>> Source
>> Application: A Report from the Field): the two main points stressed by
>> Mitchell is that Python needs (1) more performance and (2) more 
>> security.
>> Looks familiar?
>
> What does he actually mean by (2)?

Sandboxing arbitrary code is my guess (controlling its access to the 
filesystem, resource allocation, etc).  Because, of course, doing it at 
the process boundary is probably too OS specific for something like 
chandler that has to run on windows.

-bob