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You're making it sound like you're disagreeing with me but it sounds like we're in complete agreement on the main point: it's not impossible to create a cPython
by plesner 11y ago
You're making it sound like you're disagreeing with me but it sounds like we're in complete agreement on the main point: it's not impossible to create a cPython JIT. It's a choice whether to do it or not. (And by the way, creating a JIT is a piece of engineering, it's not black magic). It's fair enough if people think that would be the wrong choice, I might even agree actually, but if the cPython developers say, time and time again, that python is inherently unsuitable to be JITted then that's wrong and it prevents that discussion from taking place.
- orf 11y agoFew things are impossible to code. It's hard to create a JIT for Python and the reference implementation for Python is not the right place to add such a JIT for the reasons stated in the comments above. It's not that the Python developers preventing discussion, it's just this discussion is always fruitless, has been had many times before and the people invoking the discussion often blame the cPython developers for their response. Nobody wins, it's a waste of time.