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On 05/08/2015 12:13 AM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Clay Gerrard's message of 2015-05-07 18:35:23 -0700:
>> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm still very curious to hear if anybody has been willing to try to
>>> make Swift work on pypy.
>>
>>
>> yeah, Alex Gaynor was helping out with it for awhile.  It worked.  And it
>> helped.  A little bit.
>>
>> Probably still worth looking at if you're curious, but I'm not aware of
>> anyone who's currently working aggressively to productionize swift running
>> on pypy.
>
> So if I take your phrase "A little bit" to mean "Not enough to matter"
> then I can imagine there isn't much more that can be done.
>
> It sounds like there are really deep architectural issues in Swift that
> need addressing, not just "make code run faster", but "get closer to
> the metal" type efficiencies that are being sought.

I understood it to be not so much "get closer to the metal", but more "deal 
efficiently with parallel storage I/O".

Chris