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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ PyPy 2.0 - Einstein Sandwich
We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.0. This is a stable release that brings
a swath of bugfixes, small performance improvements and compatibility fixes.
+PyPy 2.0 is a big step for us and we hope in the future we'll be able to
+provide stable releases more often.
You can download the PyPy 2.0 release here:
@@ -19,6 +21,10 @@ The two biggest changes since PyPy 1.9 are:
.. _`cffi`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org
+If you're using PyPy for anything, it would help us immensely if you fill out
+the following survey: http://bit.ly/pypysurvey This is for the developers
+eyes and we will not make any information public without your agreement.
+
What is PyPy?
=============
@@ -28,8 +34,8 @@ due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler.
This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64 or
Windows 32. Windows 64 work is still stalling, we would welcome a volunteer
-to handle that. ARM support is on the way and we're expecting to release
-an alpha ARM version shortly.
+to handle that. ARM support is on the way, as you can see from the recently
+released alpha for ARM.
.. _`pypy 2.0 and cpython 2.7.3`: http://speed.pypy.org
@@ -54,6 +60,10 @@ Highlights
* A lot of stability issues fixed.
+* Refactoring much of the numpypy array classes, which resulted in removal of
+ lazy expression evaluation. On the other hand, we now have more complete
+ dtype support and support more array attributes.
+
.. _`pypycore`: https://github.com/gevent-on-pypy/pypycore/
.. _`pypy-hacks`: https://github.com/schmir/gevent/tree/pypy-hacks