[Zope-dev] Parrot

[Alan Milligan]

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Parrot 0.1.2 was released a couple of weeks ago.  According to the
release notes, there's now "better python support, separated into
dynaclasses".

Unfortunately, I haven't really managed to keep up with the Parrot
project, but I think it quite possibly represents the strategic future
of Zope.

An obvious benefit is the genuine concurrency it offers over GIL on SMP
hardware.  Anyone running an enterprise Zope or Plone installation would
desire to take advantage of this.

I know a year or so ago, someone received a pie in the face at a
conference because Parrot still wasn't as fast as the native Python
interpreter, but maybe this too has changed with this release.

I'm very interested to know if anyone is investigating Parrot.

Alan
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