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Submission + - Codon Python compiler gets faster (usenix.org)

Submitted by rikfarrow on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:19PM

rikfarrow writes: In May 2023, I tried out Codon, an Open Source Python compiler. At the time, I had difficulty compiling the scripts I most commonly used, but was excited by the prospect. Python is essentially single threaded and checks the shape (type) of each variable as it interprets scripts. Codon fixes types and compiles Python into compact, executable binaries that execute much faster.

Several things have changed with their latest release: I have successful compiles, the committers have added a compiled version of NumPy (high performance math algorithms), and changed their open source license to Apache 2.

Journal Journal: The math behind "beer goggles" 2

Journal by tomhudson on Sunday February 11, 2007 @12:03PM

Researchers at Manchester University, among others, have discovered a mathematical formula for calculating the "beer goggles effect" (where people look more attractive after a few beers).

The factors are: how drunk you are, how dark the room is, your eye-sight, the amount of smoke in the air, and how far you are from your "target" (which also explains all those "good from far but far from good" sightings).

The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World 252

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 11, 2007 @11:32AM from the that's-a-whole-world-more-than-world-two dept.

RockDoctor writes "Dark Reading carries an article by one Nathan Spande who works in Cambodia. Locally he finds that OpenOffice.Org and MS Office are the same price ($2), or $7-20 by downloading. He discusses why the economics of OpenSource don't work in this environment, and how it contributes to global computer security issues through the "little extras" (trojans, spambots and other malware) that typically accompany such "local editions" of software. The economics of software outside the west are very different to what most people are used to."

Feed An American Idol for Crypto Geeks (feedburner.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Sunday February 11, 2007 @09:12AM

The federal government is holding a competition for a new cryptographic hash function that will become the national standard. Really, this is exciting stuff. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.

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