What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
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A Cray?
What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question.
WMM
On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <castironpi@gma il.comwrote:What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
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Warren Myers wrote:On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <castironpi@gma il.comwrote:>What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have aA Cray?
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What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question.
slightly used one myself, and it's a pretty mediocre Python interpreter.
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On Feb 12, 12:31 pm, Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcen ter.comwrote:Someone mentioned language-specific chips earlier. Or, if you couldWarren Myers wrote:On Feb 12, 2008 1:05 PM, <castiro...@gma il.comwrote:What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
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A Cray?
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What are you trying to do? "dream" hardware is a very wide question.
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The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a
slightly used one myself, and it's a pretty mediocre Python interpreter..
dedicate processes on certain chips or cores. Paralell, serial, cache
size, pick.
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>>What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?the human brain may be a pretty mediocre Python interpreter, but>
The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a
slightly used one myself, and it's a pretty mediocre Python interpreter.
darn if I don't miss
on other platforms...>>import dwim
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On Feb 12, 1:03 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@ti m.thechases.com wrote:You ever go to bars? import dwis. sigh()>>What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?>The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain. I have a
slightly used one myself, and it's a pretty mediocre Python interpreter.
the human brain may be a pretty mediocre Python interpreter, but
darn if I don't miss
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On Feb 12, 1:05 pm, castiro...@gmai l.com wrote:A 10 GHz single core.What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
(Dual core if doing lots of I/O.)
Carl Banks
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Jeff Schwab wrote:
Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone atThe only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain.
simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are
all hard-wired to custom hardware, it's a real nightmare
interfacing with it.
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Björn
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On Feb 12, 3:42 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-
mail-0306.20.chr0n.. .@spamgourmet.c omwrote:Hold only one- recognition.Jeff Schwab wrote:>The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain.
Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at
simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are
all hard-wired to custom hardware, it's a real nightmare
interfacing with it.
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote:
I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it'sWhat is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made
out of broccoli and oven-roasted garlic, that suddenly turns into
Sylvester Stallone in a tutu just before my program returns its result.
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/me no longer wishes to know about your dreams.
WMM
On Feb 12, 2008 4:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve@remove-this-cybersource.com .auwrote:On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote:
>>What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's
anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made
out of broccoli and oven-roasted garlic, that suddenly turns into
Sylvester Stallone in a tutu just before my program returns its result.
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Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:Yes and don't try to do a direct interface if you are not absolutely,Jeff Schwab wrote:
>>>The only "dream hardware" I know of is the human brain.
Nah. Too few storage capacity, and too slow and error-prone at
simple calculations. The few special but very advanced features are
all hard-wired to custom hardware, it's a real nightmare
interfacing with it.
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Björn
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certainly, 100% sure, that the understanding of the API is mutual.
If not, be prepare to handle exceptions. Some you can ignore in a
try/except clause like SyntaxError, MemoryError, RuntimeError and
ReferenceError.
Others should be more interpreted like a progress indication, for
example: ArithmeticError which may be raised like a plain StandardError.
But if you are lucky and get things more or less running watch out for
LookupError, BaseException, EnvironmentErro r and NameError, does can
ruin your day and may even be fatal.
Absolutely fatal are: ValueError and TypeError, nothing really you can
do against, even if you can catch these errors the program will usually
still halt on a SystemExit.
And if you think that is the worst can happen, he!
There is still: AttributeError, ImportError, IOError and OverflowError.
And it the end if all that didn't happen there is quite a chance either
you or the other go for a NotImplementedE rror.
If that didn't happen you always get after random() time an EOFError,
however the good thing is that the process continues due to os.fork()
(not available on all platforms).
Don't count on return(0).
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:*Oven-roasted* garlic? OK, that's just weird.On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote:
>>>What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter?
I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's
anything like me, it's probably a giant computer the size of a bus, made
out of broccoli and oven-roasted garlic, that suddenly turns into
Sylvester Stallone in a tutu just before my program returns its result.
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Jeff Schwab <jeff@schwabcen ter.comwrites:
Why, where do you roast your garlic?*Oven-roasted* garlic? OK, that's just weird.
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On Feb 13, 12:31 pm, Jeff Schwab <j...@schwabcen ter.comwrote:Not weird -- delicious! Try doing it like this: Take a whole knob*Oven-roasted* garlic? OK, that's just weird.
unpeeled dribble on some olive oil and black pepper and bake in a
medium oven for 10-15 mins. Pull apart into individual cloves which
are pressed to squirt the now soft (and much less pungent) garlic
out. Eat it on croutons, toast, the chicken you've just roasted at
the same time or whatever.
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