[pypy-dev] pypy with sympy

[Ondrej Certik]

> We are confident that we can surpass CPython's speed with the help of
> the JIT. As for free threading, the big prerequisite for that is a GC
> that plays well with threads. Boehm is not very good in this respect.
> After this is done we can think about how to insert locking operations
> in an automatic way to reduce the likelihood of errors (this is
> currently already done for releasing the GIL around external function
> calls). Then there will probably be a huge amount of painful debugging :-)

I remembered other few remarks to point out:

1) Current pypy in Debian doesn't have modules: thread, ctypes.

Thread is needed for py.test, ctypes for plotting facilities in sympy.

Ondrej