workshop2011 Topics - cython/cython GitHub Wiki

Schedule

• who: Vitja, Stefan, Francesc (testing)

• who: Stefan, Robert, Vitja

• who: Dag, Stefan, Robert
• refactor into transform?

• who: Mark
• module scope, performance (profiling), etc.

• who: Mark
• enables coverage analysis, better pdb support

• who: -
• e.g. difflib, sre_compile, weak containers
• see recent python-dev thread

• who: Haoyu, Stefan

• who: Dag

• who: Francesc, Friedrich
• clean up
• check release notes against feature documentation, document "new" features
• compiler directives

• who: Dag, Friedrich, Francesc, Mark, Pauli

• who: Dag, Friedrich, Francesc, Mark, Pauli, Robert

• who: Dag, Pauli

• who: Vitja, Robert

• who: Vitja
• dependency graph for NameNodes

• who: Stefan, Dag, Robert, eventually everyone
• Python features
• language stability

• who: Dag, Robert, Haoyu

• get them closer to Python classes in semantics

• who: ?
• accessibility: find test for feature x
• tags for tests

• who: Haoyu
• what's missing
• depends: "simplify Cython language"

• who: Mark, Francesc
• PyCFunction doesn't support Py3 function annotations
• cannot currently have attributes
• lack special Python function attributes (func_*)

• who: Dag, Pauli

• who: Dag, Pauli

• Why isn't Cython (yet) as good as Fortran? (Dag)
• Lightweight arrays
• what to do with multithreading/concurrency
• CPU/OpenMP/etc.

• What's missing?

• Language simplification

  • Deprecate cpdef?

• Templates

  • Standard templating preprocessor/support?
  • cdef floating f(floating x, floating y): ...

• Internal cleanup
• Standards http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
• Documentation (move to main repo, cleanup)
• Tests (tags)