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PyPy on Maemo
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What is PyPy?
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* Yet another python interpreter

* Written in Python instead of C

Why yet another python interpreter?
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* To have a Python Just in time compiler

* To experiment with Python implementation more

* To have a decent GC

* Whatever you wish...

Why PyPy on maemo?
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* Pluggable GCs - potential for memory saving

* Possible faster startup, due to freezing
  modules etc.

* Pluggable object layout in memory - possibility
  for saving space.

* Optimizations impossible on CPython

* All this things "oh it's too tedious" with CPython

Status of pypy on maemo
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* runs

* some experiments with embedded-friendly gc's

Contact / Q&A 
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holger krekel, Maciej Fijalkowski
at http://merlinux.eu

PyPy: http://codespeak.net/pypy

Blog: http://morepypy.blogspot.com

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