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I think that the current consensus is that unladen-swallow was aimed at a short term performance boost, while pypy has more ambitious long-term goals. While the
by ominous_prime 17y ago
I think that the current consensus is that unladen-swallow was aimed at a short term performance boost, while pypy has more ambitious long-term goals. While the CPython branch may be the current "standard", there's no reason that another runtime couldn't surpass it and become defacto.
- codexon 17y agoI don't think PyPy has a chance at becoming the standard the way things are going now. Their funding has ended, and I don't think they will manage to pony up another million+ in funding after 5 years. PyPy isn't compatible with C modules, and can be up to 5x as slow as Cpython (according to their own benchmarks). Making unladen-swallow the python standard will probably cause a brain-drain and make others hesitant to support PyPy.