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> I'm not very familiar with the culture of the Python community so this might come across as offending, but why such an obsession with "pure" Python?

I think it refers to the implementation, meaning the library has no C modules and is written 100% in Python.

This means it should be able to run on all Python implementations, including Jython, IronPython, PyPy, Google App Engine...

Were some companies acquired multiple times the same year, or is there a bug somewhere? (RazorFish is listed 3 times in 2002, DoubleClick and Skype twice in 2005, Getty Images twice in 2008, Sterling Commerce twice in 2009.)

They're meant to differentiate their CPUs, and find a good use for the billions of transistors that their process technology allows them to include in their designs. So the question is, what's better: more cache, more cores (diminishing returns after 4), or a specialized accelerator for 3D, video and generic heavily parallel computations (GPGPU)?

Gittip stats 14 years ago

I like this, and I just signed up! Do you think tipping is something that GitHub might want to add as a core feature of their web site?

The Python interpreter does an implicit "import site" on initialization.

You can disable it using the -S option if/when you care about startup time.

Here are some numbers on my MacBook Pro:

$ ./run.sh bash hello.sh

median 0.002

$ ./run.sh python hello.py

median 0.016

$ ./run.sh python -S hello.py

median 0.008

Not sure if it is viable, but Google has been doing it for some time with Android. The open-source version is free, and if the manufacturer includes the various Google Apps on top, they get a cut of the ads revenue.