PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support

Re:PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support by brianwawok on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:16PM (#12258633)

Well if this task is trivial to parallelize.. I would spin up 100 GCE machines for 1 penny each per hour after today's price drop (combined total of $1 per hour for 100 CPUs of action).. and pull those few million files and dump to a cloud drive in 1 hour flat.

It's a tricky sweet spot PyPy has. Certain tasks that need CPU power but not too much CPU power and you want to spend time to make it run in parallel but not too much time to make it run across many machines.

(By no means am I a PyPy or CPython expert. Just toyed with them and want to understand the bounds...)

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Re:PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support by zardeh on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:34PM (#12258698)

But now you have to manage that deployment which is also nontrivial.

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Re:PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support by brianwawok on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:41AM (#12261616)

Depends on your setup I guess? I have a a GCE cluster setup where I can:

1) Point a metadata variable at my git repo

2) Spin up 100 GCEs

3) Each will pip install requirements.txt from the git checkout

4) Each will read a metadata to get the command and run it. (Could hardcode run.py or something).

Realize not everyone has this sitting around, but you can do it in an afternoon. Then gives you instant Python supercomputer for anything you want across many projects.

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Re:PyPy gets funding from Mozilla for Python 3.5 support by zardeh on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:10PM (#12263286)

The setup for that sounds significantly nontrivial, although interesting.

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