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An open-source Python implementation using JIT techniques

by daGrevis on 4/4/14, 7:33 AM with 27 comments

  • by ksec on 4/4/14, 9:10 AM

    Google V8 is certainly a brilliant piece of engineering, but by no means Method JIT ( V8 is based on ) has won or the best. Because the King, LuaJIT is based on Tracing JIT.

    I have to wonder why Python as a communities have always have the interested to substantially speed up Python. While the Ruby Camp has always been about if you want more speed, do it in C. ( Best Tools for the Job manta? ) Although I hope Ruby MRI will one day get its own Google V8 / LuaJIT treatment.

  • by mercurial on 4/4/14, 8:59 AM

    It's interesting, but it looks like it has a loooong way to go before reaching feature parity with PyPy, which has itself a number of challenges to overcome before becoming mainstream. I would be interested to read the rationale for starting work on Pyston vs using/improving PyPy.

  • by sanxiyn on 4/4/14, 2:17 PM

  • by webmaven on 4/4/14, 9:46 AM

    Given that this is a new project, why focus on python 2.7, rather than 3.4?

  • by jnowlan on 4/4/14, 2:08 PM

    Would this allow python to be run in the browser (by going through Emscripten and asm.js)? Is that a goal that makes sense?