[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-06-15

[Lucian Branescu]

2009/6/15 NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu>:
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>> There is a project doing a bit of that, http://code.google.com/p/jythonroid/
>> Jython just got a new compiler though, it should be possible to retarget it.
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>> Google seems to love Python, maybe they will help? Perhaps OLPC could
>> get them to at least say whether they're working on it?
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> http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/
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> It is Google's Python plan. Unfortunately it is not about reducing memory consumption, it is for servers.
> The problem with the Sugar path is that it has no hardware vendor backing. Android has.
> The new 1.5 XO makes the memory pressure bearable with 1G of memory just it also has no hardware vendor backing (in the sense of at least 10 million units per year category).
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 I meant Python on Android.

In the short term, PyBank should help. In the very long term, PyPy
would be an interesting option, but bindings are still a problem.