[clug] Forward: [SciPy-user] CorePy 1.0 Release (x86, Cell BE, BSD!)

[Carlo Hamalainen]

Hi,

Saw this on the sage-devel mailing list the other day, thought it
might be of interest to some CLUG people, especially those in the
Python SIG:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: mabshoff <mabshoff at googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Subject: [sage-devel] Forward: [SciPy-user] CorePy 1.0 Release (x86,
Cell BE, BSD!)
To: sage-devel <sage-devel at googlegroups.com>



This looks very cool and was posted on the Scipy list:

Hi scipy-ers -

Some of you may remember CorePy from previous SciPy conferences.
Feedback from those meetings was very helpful for planning the future
of CorePy.

Without further ado...

Announcing CorePy 1.0 - http://www.corepy.org

We are pleased to announce the latest release of CorePy. CorePy is a
complete system for developing machine-level programs in Python.
CorePy lets developers build and execute assembly-level programs
interactively from the Python command prompt, embed them directly in
Python applications, or export them to standard assembly languages.

CorePy's straightforward APIs enable the creation of complex,
high-performance applications that take advantage of processor
features usually inaccessible from high-level scripting languages,
such as multi-core execution and vector instruction sets (SSE, VMX,
SPU).

This version addresses the two most frequently asked questions about
CorePy:

1) Does CorePy support x86 processors?
  Yes! CorePy now has extensive support for 32/64-bit x86 and SSE
  ISAs on Linux and OS X*.

2) Is CorePy Open Source?
  Yes!  CorePy now uses the standard BSD license.

Of course, CorePy still supports PowerPC and Cell BE SPU processors.
In fact, for this release, the Cell run-time was redesigned from the
ground up to remove the dependency on IBM's libspe and now uses the
system-level interfaces to work directly with the SPUs (and, CorePy is
still the most fun way to program the PS3).

CorePy is written almost entirely in Python.  Its run-time system
does not rely on any external compilers or assemblers.

If you have the need to write tight, fast code from Python, want
to demystify machine-level code generation, or just miss the good-old
days of assembly hacking, check out CorePy!

And, if you don't believe us, here's our favorite user quote:

"CorePy makes assembly fun again!"


__credits__ = """
 CorePy is developed by Chris Mueller, Andrew Friedley, and Ben
 Martin and is supported by the Open Systems Lab at Indiana
 University.

 Chris can be reached at cmueller[underscore]dev[at]yahoo[dot]com.
"""

__footnote__ = """
 *Any volunteers for a Windows port? :)
"""





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