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I'll never understand why there are so many fast, alternative python interpreters. Is the language correctness of the official interpreter causing lower perfo
by jokoon 6y ago
I'll never understand why there are so many fast, alternative python interpreters.
Is the language correctness of the official interpreter causing lower performance? Does it prevent using some modules? What's at stake here?
I'm planning to use python as a game scripting language but I hear so much about performance issues that it scares me to try learning how to use it in a project. I love python though.
- entha_saava 6y agoThey are mostly JITs or have specific purposes (like stackless python). JITs like pypy have a raw performance advantage. But implementation is more complex, and there is startup time overhead. Also I have heard CPython reference implementation prefers clarity of code over optimizations. As for game scripting, Lua is most used one.