Symantec Vcafe Map

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: Newbie Nugget

Speaker:  Comprehensions and other such stuff  - Wesley Chun

Topic: Unladen Swallow Project

Speaker:  Collin Winter & Jeffrey Yasskin

Collin Winter is a software engineer on Google's compiler team, where he serves as tech lead for Unladen Swallow, a Google-sponsored open-source project to speed up CPython. He's a long-time core Python developer, having contributed to the development of Python 3000 and having co-authored the 2to3 tool with Guido van Rossum.

LINKS: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

A discussion about optimizing dynamic languages generally, optimizing Python specifically, and how Google's Unladen Swallow project is speeding up CPython.  This talk will cover Google's motivation for Unladen Swallow, the approach being taken, results so far, challenges faced, cancers cured and plans for merger with CPython.

8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.