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Cool,

Are there any technical docs for how eventlet/greenlet work in PyPy,

>From my knowledge of greenlet its doing some pretty low level stuff that would seem hard to mirror in PyPy.

https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet/blob/master/greenlet.c#L9

And the very platform specific stack switching functions @ https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet/tree/master/platform

It would seem like greenlet is pretty tightly coupled to the cpython and its functionality. I'd like to know how it can operate in pypy without major modifications, maybe u know of such a documentation that explains this. I'd be interested in reading that at least (maybe others would like to also).

:-)

-Josh
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Hi Roman,

Yes eventlet works well on PyPy, both Marconi and Swift use it.

Alex


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Roman Podolyaka <rpodolyaka at mirantis.com<mailto:rpodolyaka at mirantis.com>> wrote:
Hi Alex,

That's really cool! I believe, performance is not the only benefit we can get from running OpenStack projects on PyPy. We  can also improve the overall "correctness" of our code (as PyPy behaves differently with non-closed files, etc), just like compiling of your C/C++ app using different compilers can show hidden errors.

And what about eventlet? Does it work well on PyPy? (as it is used in Nova, Neutron, etc)

Thanks,
Roman


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com<mailto:alex.gaynor at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Many of you have probably seen me send review requests in the last few weeks
about adding PyPy support to various OpenStack projects. A few people were
confused by these, so I wanted to fill everyone in on what I'm up to :)

First, for those who aren't familiar with what PyPy is: PyPy is an
implementation of the Python language which includes a high performance tracing
just-in-time compiler and which is faster than CPython (the reference, and most
widely deployed, implementation) on almost all workloads.

The current status is:

Two major projects work, both Marconi and Swift, Marconi is gating against PyPy
already, Swift isn't yet since I needed to fix a few small PyPy bugs and those
aren't in a release yet, expect it soon :)

In terms of results, I've observed 30% performance improvements on GET
workloads for Swift under PyPy vs. CPython (other workloads haven't been
benchmarked tet). I believe the Marconi folks have also observed some
performance wins, but I'll let them speak to that, I don't have the full
details.

Many python-clients projects are also working out of the box and gating:
including novaclient, swiftclient, marconiclient, ceilometerclient, heatclient,
and ironicclient!

There's a few outstanding reviews to add PyPy gating for cinderclient,
troveclient, and glanceclient.

In terms of future direction:

I'm going to continue to work on getting more projects running and gating
against PyPy.

Right now I'm focusing a lot of my attention on improving Swift performance,
particularly under PyPy, but also under CPython.

I'm hoping some day PyPy will be the default way to deploy OpenStack!


If you're interested in getting your project running on PyPy, or looking at
performance under it, please let me know, I'm always interested in helping!

Thanks,
Alex

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