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During the building phase of PyPy, the script produces some nice ASCII characters that looks really interesting. What does each character represent? How to interpret this output? What really is PyPy build doing while producing this ASCII art?

output from PyPy build

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This is the mandelbrot set.

Enjoy Mandelbrot :-)

according to http://pypy.org/download.html . This creates an enjoyable build experience.

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  • What? So it means nothing to the build itself? – yegle Feb 11 '14 at 21:51
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    It seems like the authors just decide to show some interesting ASCII art during the boring build :-( http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#why-does-pypy-draw-a-mandelbrot-fractal-while-translating – yegle Feb 11 '14 at 21:52
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    it's a progress bar. pure dot based progress bar is quite boring. enjoy :) it does not slow anything down. – fijal Feb 24 '14 at 19:39