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They want to be your user-friendly personal cloud. Easy as an an App Store. Open source. Host it wherever you want. Your data and your apps are yours.
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...
http://twitter.com/frstartupjobs (run by me)
And unfortunately the browser is crap. :-(
People may also want to check out Ian Bicking's Silver Lining tool: http://cloudsilverlining.org/
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
See the Intel Core i7 2620M (the 2.7Ghz part in the high-end 13" model) spec sheet for example: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52231